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CRANIOTOMY AND THORACOTOMY FOR NON‐SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG WITH CEREBRAL METASTASIS
Author(s) -
Popovic E. A.,
Fabinyi G. C. A.,
Brazenor G. A.,
Daniel F.,
Clarke C. P.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1993.tb00399.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracotomy , craniotomy , brain metastasis , lung , lung cancer , carcinoma , metastasis , surgery , cancer
Twenty patients with non‐small cell carcinoma of the lung who had cerebral metastasis, were treated by craniotomy and thoracotomy. Eighteen of these patients had a solitary metastasis and all were treated as curable. Ten patients presented with synchronous lung and brain disease. Of the remaining 10, nine initially presented with the lung tumour, which was treated first. There was a zero operative mortality rate and median survival was 12 months with reasonable quality of life for this time.