The impact of pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with previously resected colorectal cancer liver metastases.

Armin WiegeringJohannes RiegelJohanna WagnerVolker KunzmannJohannes BaurThorsten WallesUlrich DietzStefan LoebChristoph-Thomas GermerUlrich StegerIngo Klein

Published in: PloS one (2017)

The occurrence of colorectal lung metastases after curative liver resection does not impact patient survival if pulmonary metastasectomy is feasible. Those patients clearly benefit from repeated resections of the liver and the lung metastases.

Keyphrases

liver metastases
prognostic factors
pulmonary hypertension
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
risk assessment
lymph node