[Surgery of intrathoracic metastases]

From 1969 to 1988 on the Department of Thoracic Surgery "Vogelsang" of the District Hospital Magdeburg were performed 128 thoracotomies on 114 patients because of metastases from extrapulmonary tumours. In most of the cases the primary tumours were carcinomas of kidney, of testes, colorectal carcinomas and breast cancer. By resection we employed all important methods of lung surgery, 5 times as median sternotomy. The survival time of 3 years run to 40% and that of 5 years to 24%. By patients with different lung metastases we found an aggravation of prognosis.