Surgical Treatment of Single Pontomedullary Junction Metastasis from Lung Cancer

BACKGROUND: When lung cancer develops a solitary metastasis at the pontomedullary junction, due to surgical risk, the current oncologic treatment is radiosurgery and chemotherapy. Case Description. We describe a patient with a single intrinsic metastasis at the pons and medulla. Removal was successf...

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Autores principales: Missori, Paolo, Peschillo, Simone, Ambrosone, Angela, Currà, Antonio, Paolini, Sergio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9173891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35685062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4041506
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author Missori, Paolo
Peschillo, Simone
Ambrosone, Angela
Currà, Antonio
Paolini, Sergio
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description BACKGROUND: When lung cancer develops a solitary metastasis at the pontomedullary junction, due to surgical risk, the current oncologic treatment is radiosurgery and chemotherapy. Case Description. We describe a patient with a single intrinsic metastasis at the pons and medulla. Removal was successful, without complication. CONCLUSION: Surgery can provide excellent results, and in selected patients, it should be considered a first-line treatment in experienced hands.
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spelling pubmed-91738912022-06-08 Surgical Treatment of Single Pontomedullary Junction Metastasis from Lung Cancer Missori, Paolo Peschillo, Simone Ambrosone, Angela Currà, Antonio Paolini, Sergio Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report BACKGROUND: When lung cancer develops a solitary metastasis at the pontomedullary junction, due to surgical risk, the current oncologic treatment is radiosurgery and chemotherapy. Case Description. We describe a patient with a single intrinsic metastasis at the pons and medulla. Removal was successful, without complication. CONCLUSION: Surgery can provide excellent results, and in selected patients, it should be considered a first-line treatment in experienced hands. Hindawi 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9173891/ /pubmed/35685062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4041506 Text en Copyright © 2022 Paolo Missori et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Surgical Treatment of Single Pontomedullary Junction Metastasis from Lung Cancer
title_sort surgical treatment of single pontomedullary junction metastasis from lung cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9173891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35685062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4041506
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