Treatment of Pulmonary Metastatic Disease (1966)

This article by surgeons at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, Louisiana, concerns surgery to remove cancer that has spread to the lungs from elsewhere in the body (pulmonary metastases). It does not concern asbestos. Much of the article reviews other surgeons' reports, and those figures are not this study's results. The authors also described their own patients. The scanned text reports 31 patients, three of whom had two operations, but the counts in the scan do not agree with each other. There were no operative or hospital deaths, and eleven patients died within the first year. Testicular tumors had the best outlook and bone sarcomas the poorest: all three patients with bone sarcoma died within three years. One patient with angiosarcoma of the thigh was living ten years after lung surgery. The authors said their series was small but seemed to show a better outlook when more time passed before the lung spread appeared. They concluded that, in selected cases, the operation carried little risk, and that the outlook was better with carcinoma than with sarcoma.

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From J-M's medical library

This copy comes from the Johns-Manville medical library. It was among the papers J-M kept in its medical library without an index entry.

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