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- Title
Long-Term Survival After Repeat Resections of Metastases in Liver, Lung, and Stomach from Sigmoid Colon Cancer: Report of a Case.
- Authors
Fuyo Yoshimi; Yuji Asato; Akifumi Suzuki; Moriyuki Kiyoshima; Yasukazu Shioyama; Johji Imura; Masayuki Itabashi
- Abstract
<div class="abstract"><a name="abs1"/><span class="abstractheading">Abstract??</span>A 74-year-old female patient underwent a simultaneous colectomy and hepatectomy for sigmoid colon cancer and its hepatic metastases. Six months later she underwent a hepatectomy for recurrent hepatic metastases; then 10 months later, a pulmonary resection for pulmonary metastasis; and 24 months later, a partial gastrectomy for gastric metastasis. As of December 2005, at 7 years 6 months after the first surgery and at 4 years after the last surgery, the patient is still alive with a good quality of life and no sign of recurrence.</div>
- Subjects
COLECTOMY; HEPATECTOMY; COLON cancer; METASTASIS; GASTRECTOMY; CANCER invasiveness
- Publication
Surgery Today, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0941-1291
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00595-006-3318-2