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Oh, Ryu, Kim, Choi, Lee, Kim, and Han: A Case of Surgical Resection of Pulmonary Metastases in Patient with Resected Primary Colom Carcinoma
Case Report

The Ewha Medical Journal 1995; 18(2): 137-141.

Published online: 24 July 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1995.18.2.137

A Case of Surgical Resection of Pulmonary Metastases in Patient with Resected Primary Colom Carcinoma

Jee Young Oh, Seung Ki Ryu, Seung Jung Kim, Jun-Hyuk Choi, Soon Nam Lee, Kwang Ho Kim*, Woo Sup Han**

Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

*Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

**Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright © 1995. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Although the role of surgical management of metastatic disease from primary carcinoma of the coln and recutm is still controversial, resection of hepatic metastasis improves survival rate of patients with primary colorectal carcinoma treated locally. The lung is the most common site of extra-abdominal metastasis following resection of a prymary colorectal tumor and not amenable to curative therapy.
It is possible to resect the pulmonary metastasis in selected patients following resection of colorectal cancers, but the 5-year survival rates are ranged from 9% to 57%. Authors report a case of resection of pulmonary metastasis occured 3 years after resection of primary colon carcinoma.

Keywords: Colon carcinoma, Pulmonary metastasis, Lung resection

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