Surgical Management of Neoplastic Pulmonary Metastases

Abstract

THE increasing age of the population with the associated increased incidence of cancer, the increasing number of patients successfully operated upon for neoplastic disease and the larger number of routine chest survey roentgenograms are facts that tend to emphasize the importance of the growing problem of pulmonary metastatic disease.The present state of perfection of the technics for the resection of pulmonary tissue, or the excision of tumors growing in the lung, no longer permits a defeatist attitude when the physician is faced with the problem of metastatic neoplastic deposits in the lungs. There is no gainsaying the fact that . . .