Liver metastases from lung cancer: Is surgical resection justified?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 291-293

  Di Carlo, Isidoro ^a   Grasso, Giuseppe ^a   Patane', Domenico ^a   Russello, Domenico ^a   Latteri, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SURGERY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 0038337854     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00149-8     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Stehlin JS Jr, De Ipolyi PD, Greeff PJ, et al. Treatment of cancer of the liver. Twenty years' experience with infusion and resection in 414 patients. Ann Surg 1988;208:23-35.
2. Lindell G, Ohlsson B, Saarela A, et al. Liver resection of noncolorectal secondaries. J Surg Oncol 1998;69:66-70.
3. Tomas-de la Vega JE, Donahue EJ, Doolas A, et al. A ten year experience with hepatic resection. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1984;159:223-8.
4. Berney T, Mentha G, Roth AD, et al. Results of surgical resection of liver metastases from non-colorectal primaries. Br J Surg 1998;85:1423-7.
5. Schwartz SI. Hepatic resection for noncolorectal nonneuroendocrine metastases. World J Surg 1995;19:72-5.
6. Hamy A, Mirallié P, Bizouarn P, et al. Liver resection for non colorectal, noneuroendocrine metastases. Results of 32 hepatectomies in 27 patients. Ann Chir 2000;125:124-30.
7. Cobourn CS, Makowka L, Langer B, et al. Examination of patients selection and outcome for hepatic resection for metastatic disease. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1987;165:239-46.
8. Foster JH. Survival after liver resection for secondary tumors. Am J Surg 1978;135:389-94.