Should the number of pulmonary metastases influence the surgical decision?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 385-392

  Girard, Philippe ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a   Baldeyrou, Pierre ^a   Le Chevalier, Thierry ^b   Le Cesne, Axel ^b   Escudier, Bernard ^b   Filaire, Marc ^a   Grunenwald, Dominique ^a  

^a INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Lung; Metastases; Prognosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030921830     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(97)00203-0     Document Type: Article

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