WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. F. Z. Ammor*, I. Issouffou, L. Belliraj, H. Harmouchi, M. Lakranbi, Y. Ouadnouni and M. Smahi

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Surgery of lung metastases provides better results in terms of survival, subject to several conditions; hence the interest of this study to demonstrate the criteria of good prognosis. Methods: It’s about a retrospective study concerning 15 cases of lung metastasectomy over a period of 7 years. Results: 15 patients (11 women, 4 men), whose The primitive cancers was breast in 3 cases, digestive in 8 cases, uterine in 2 cases and bone in 1 case and pleural in 1 case. They were unique in 66%. The surgery was a wedge resection in 53%, a Lobectomy in 33%, and a segmentectomie in 14%. the limits of resections was not tumoral in all cases, without vascular emboli tumour , but tumoral lymph nodes was found in 2 cases. All patients had received adjuvant chemotherapy. The survival rate was 27% at 5-year.