@article{JTD31144,
author = {Isabelle Moneke and Friederike Funcke and Severin Schmid and Thomas Osei-Agyemang and Bernward Passlick},
title = {Pulmonary laser-assisted metastasectomy is associated with prolonged survival in patients with colorectal cancer},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {11},
number = {8},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Pulmonary metastases develop in 10–15% of patients with colorectal cancer. Surgical metastasectomy currently provides the only hope for a cure for these patients. The aim of this study was to analyze the expanding role of pulmonary metastasectomy in the context of laser-assisted surgery (LAS) vs. non-laser-assisted surgery (NLAS).
Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective analysis of 204 patients who underwent curative pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal cancer between 01/2005 and 12/2016. The main endpoint was survival. The Kaplan-Meier method was applied for statistical analysis and survival rates were compared with the log rank test.
Results: Median follow-up was 53 months. A total of 267 metastases were resected in 154 operations in the NLAS group (median: 1) vs. 438 metastases in 122 operations in the LAS group (median: 5; P},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/31144}
}