LONG SURVIVAL AFTER EXTRAPLEURAL PNEUMONECTOMY FOR PLEURAL MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA WITH METASTASIS TO INFRADIAPHRAGMATIC LYMPH-NODE

Authors
NOMORI H HORIO H KOBAYASHI R MORINAGA S
Citation
H. Nomori et al., LONG SURVIVAL AFTER EXTRAPLEURAL PNEUMONECTOMY FOR PLEURAL MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA WITH METASTASIS TO INFRADIAPHRAGMATIC LYMPH-NODE, SC CARDIOVA, 31(4), 1997, pp. 237-239
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
SCANDINAVIAN CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL
ISSN journal
14017431 → ACNP
Volume
31
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
237 - 239
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A woman who at the age of 47 years underwent extrapleural pneumonectom y for malignant pleural mesothelioma with metastasis to an infradiaphr agmatic lymph node is alive and well 63 months later. Because such met astasis is readily caused by lymphatic tumour-cell permeation from the diaphragm and parietal pleura, the infradiaphragmatic nodes should be dissected at extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothe lioma.