Thoracic surgery clinics
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Thoracic surgery clinics · May 2006
ReviewSurgery for colorectal and sarcomatous pulmonary metastases: history, current management, and future directions.
This article provides a historical review of metastasectomy, reviews current surgical management approaches, and proposes what direction future research must take to determine whether there is a survival advantage associated with pulmonary metastasectomy and how best to integrate metastasectomy with medical therapies, primarily induction, and adjuvant chemotherapy.