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Thoracotomy in the management of metastatic soft-tissue sarcomas in adults
G Rosen1, E C Holmes, C A Forscher
1Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California.
Chest Surgery Clinics of North America
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
The multidisciplinary management of metastatic soft-tissue sarcomas in adults is capable of salvaging approximately half of the afflicted patients. This management includes preoperative chemotherapy for three months, thoracic surgery, continued chemotherapy, and the use of intrapleural mitoxantrone for once-present malignant pleural effusions or suspected pleural seeding of tumor. Thus, there is a definite role for the inclusion of thoracic surgery in the management of patients with soft-tissue sarcomas in whom pulmonary metastases develop.