Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Extrapleural Pneumonectomy Is the Preferred Surgical Management in the Multimodality Therapy of Pleural Mesothelioma: Con Argument

  • Published:
Annals of Surgical Oncology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Maziak DE, Gagliardi A, Haynes AE, Mackay JA, Evans WK. Surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma: a systematic review and evidence summary. Lung Cancer 2005;48:157–69

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Meerbeeck JP, Boyer M. Consensus report: pretreatment minimal staging and treatment of potentially respectable malignant pleural mesothelioma. Lung Cancer 2005;49(Suppl 1):S123–7

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Aziz T, Jilaihawi A, Prakash D. The management of malignant pleural mesothelioma; single centre experience in 10 years. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;22(2):298–305

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Rusch VW, Rosenzweig K, Venkatraman E, Leon L, Raben A, Harrison L, Bains MS, Downey RJ, Ginsberg RJ. A phase II trial of surgical resection and adjuvant high-dose hemithoracic radiation for malignant pleural mesothelioma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;122(4):788–95

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Sugarbaker DJ, Jaklitsch MT, Bueno R, Richards W, Lukanich J, Mentzer SJ, Colson Y, Linden P, Chang M, Capalbo L, Oldread E, Neragi-Miandoab S, Swanson SJ, Zellos LS. Prevention, early detection, and management of complications after 328 consecutive extrapleural pneumonectomies. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;128(1):138–46

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Rusch VW, Venkatraman ES. Important prognostic factors in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma, managed surgically. Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68(5):1799–804

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Maggi G, Casadio C, Cianci R, Rena O, Ruffini E. Trimodality management of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2001;19(3):346–50

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Calavrezos A, Koschel G, Husselmann H, Taylessani A, Heilmann HP, Fabel H, Schmoll HJ, Dietrich H, Hain E. Malignant mesothelioma of the pleura. A prospective therapeutic study of 132 patients from 1981–1985. Klin Wochenschr 1988;66(14):607–13

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Soysal O, Karaoglanoglu N, Demiracan S, Topcu S, Tastepe I, Kaya S, Unlu M, Cetin G. Pleurectomy/decortication for palliation in malignant pleural mesothelioma: results of surgery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1997;11(2):210–3

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Pass HI, Kranda K, Temeck BK, Feuerstein IR, Steinberg SM. Surgically debulked malignant pleural mesothelioma: results and prognostic factors. Ann Surg Oncol 1997;4(3):215–22

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Jaklitsch MT, Grondin SC, Sugarbaker DJ. Treatment of malignant mesothelioma. World J Surg 2001;25(2):210–7

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Boutin C, Rey F, Viallat JR. Prevention of malignant seeding after invasive diagnostic procedures in patients with pleural mesothelioma. A randomized trial of local radiotherapy. Chest 1995;108:754–8

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Astoul P, Picat-Joossen D, Viallat JR, Boutin C. Intrapleural administration of interleukin-2 for the treatment of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma: a phase II study. Cancer 1998;83(10):2099–104

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Lee TT, Everett DL, Shu HK, Jahan TM, Roach M 3rd, Speight JL, Cameron RB, Phillips TL, Chan A, Jablons DM. Radical pleurectomy/decortication and intraoperative radiotherapy followed by conformal radiation with or without chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124(6):1183–9

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Room 64-128 CHS, PO BOX 957313, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-7313, USA

    Robert B. Cameron MD

Authors
  1. Robert B. Cameron MD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Robert B. Cameron MD.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Cameron, R.B. Extrapleural Pneumonectomy Is the Preferred Surgical Management in the Multimodality Therapy of Pleural Mesothelioma: Con Argument. Ann Surg Oncol 14, 1249–1253 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-006-9160-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-006-9160-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation