Pulmonary Resection for Metastatic Osteosarcoma
- J. Judson McNamara, MD;
- Donald L. Paulson, MD;
- William B. Kingsley, MD;
- Harold C. Urschel Jr., MD
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To the Editor:— Pulmonary resection for isolated metastatic tumor has now been established as potentially curative.1-4 The chances for cure appear to depend principally on the type of primary tumor and the interval between resection of the primary tumor and resection of the metastatic lesion. We have recently resected a second pulmonary metastasis of an osteogenic sarcoma 35 years after extremity amputation for the primary tumor and 17 years after thoractomy and resection of the first metastasis. The remarkable behavior of this usually highly malignant tumor has prompted the present report.
Report of a Case:— A 68-year-old white woman entered the hospital with a three-week history of chest pain on the right side and hemoptysis. X-ray films of the chest revealed an 8-cm mass in the upper lobe of the right lung which appeared to contain calcium (Fig 1).
In 1933, at age 33 the patient underwent amputation of
