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Thoracoscopic lung metastasectomies: a 10-year, single-center experience

INTRODUCTION: The ideal surgical treatment for pulmonary metastasectomy remains controversial. Minimally invasive surgery may offer advantages for quality of life outcomes, with equivalent oncologic long-term results. The purpose of our study was to confirm the validity of the thoracoscopic approach...

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Autores principales: Lo Faso, Felice, Solaini, Luciano, Lembo, Rosalba, Bagioni, Paolo, Zago, Silvia, Soliani, Paolo, Pascotto, Robert D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3661047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23344503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00464-012-2691-8
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: The ideal surgical treatment for pulmonary metastasectomy remains controversial. Minimally invasive surgery may offer advantages for quality of life outcomes, with equivalent oncologic long-term results. The purpose of our study was to confirm the validity of the thoracoscopic approach for pulmonary metastasectomy. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 164 patients who underwent 212 lung metastasectomies from January 2000 to December 2010. Complete curative pulmonary resections were performed in 159 (96.95 %) cases; 126 patients developed lung metastases from epithelial tumors: 28 from sarcoma, 7 from melanoma, and 3 from germ cell tumors. The mean disease-free interval (DFI) was 38.75 months. Fifty-four patients underwent a major VATS resection (53 thoracoscopic lobectomies and 1 pneumonectomy), and 110 patients underwent a wedge resection/segmentectomy. Lymph node sampling was performed in 117 cases. RESULTS: After a mean follow-up of 38 months, 87 patients (53 %) had died. All resection margins were tumor-free at final pathological examination. Multivariate analysis not confirmed in our series a better prognosis for patients with a particular histologic type and also DFI, age, number of metastases, and type of surgery did not statistically influence long-term survival. CONCLUSIONS: Thoracoscopic surgery is an acceptable procedure, safe and efficacious, with a 5-year overall survival that is equivalent to open surgery.