Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-286

  Smith, Richard ^a,b   Demmy, Todd L ^c,d  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastasectomy; Pulmonary metastases; Pulmonary resection; Sarcomatous metastases; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE;

ABLATION THERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIAN THORACOTOMY; METASTASIS RESECTION; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTEROLATERAL THORACOTOMY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESECTION MARGIN; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOTOMY; TRANSSTERNAL THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863151689     PISSN: 10553207     EISSN: 15585042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2011.12.001     Document Type: Review

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