We reviewed our 10-year experience in skin metastases from lung cancer. We identified a total of 26 patients with 49 resected skin metastases. Skin metastases were synchronous in 6 patients, 3 of whom underwent primary simultaneous resection, and solitary in 6 (6/26=23.07%). Negative prognostic factors were primary non-resectability (p=0.001), small cell lung cancer (p=0.032), simultaneous discovery of other cutaneous (p=0.048) or extracutaneous (p=0.0005, Wald test p<0.002, Odds ratio = 14.37) metastases. Skin metastasis represented the unique distant localization in almost one quarter of our cases that represent the best-survivor category: in these patients skin metastasectomy is justified.
Skin metastases in lung cancer: Analysis of a 10-year experience
Tonini G;
2001-01-01
Abstract
We reviewed our 10-year experience in skin metastases from lung cancer. We identified a total of 26 patients with 49 resected skin metastases. Skin metastases were synchronous in 6 patients, 3 of whom underwent primary simultaneous resection, and solitary in 6 (6/26=23.07%). Negative prognostic factors were primary non-resectability (p=0.001), small cell lung cancer (p=0.032), simultaneous discovery of other cutaneous (p=0.048) or extracutaneous (p=0.0005, Wald test p<0.002, Odds ratio = 14.37) metastases. Skin metastasis represented the unique distant localization in almost one quarter of our cases that represent the best-survivor category: in these patients skin metastasectomy is justified.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
