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Lung, Metastases: Follow-up

Author: Isaac Hassan, MB, ChB, FRCR, DMRD, Former Senior Consultant Radiologist, Department of Radiology, St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar
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Updated: Jan 6, 2009

Intervention

Medicolegal Pitfalls

  • Failure to detect pulmonary metastases prior to radical excision of the primary tumor
  • Failure to plan and perform sequential follow-up imaging of the thorax in patients with a high risk of pulmonary metastases, such as those with teratoma of the testis or osteosarcoma
 


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Keywords

pulmonary metastases, lymphangitis carcinomatosis, pulmonary secondaries, lung secondaries, secondary lung neoplasms, lung cancer, lung malignancies, renal cancers, bone sarcomas, choriocarcinomas, melanomas, testicular teratomas, thyroid carcinomas, lung hamartoma, thoracic histoplasmosis, thoracic Hodgkin disease, thoracic lung cancer, non–small cell lung cancer, NSCLC, pulmonary hypertension, thoracic sarcoidosis

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Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Isaac Hassan, MB, ChB, FRCR, DMRD, Former Senior Consultant Radiologist, Department of Radiology, St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar
Isaac Hassan, MB, ChB, FRCR, DMRD is a member of the following medical societies: American Roentgen Ray Society and Royal College of Radiologists
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Medical Editor

Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Cambridge Health Alliance
Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD is a member of the following medical societies: American Roentgen Ray Society
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Pharmacy Editor

Bernard D Coombs, MB, ChB, PhD, Consulting Staff, Department of Specialist Rehabilitation Services, Hutt Valley District Health Board, New Zealand
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Managing Editor

W Richard Webb, MD, Chief of Thoracic Imaging, Professor, Department of Radiology, University of California at San Francisco
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

CME Editor

Robert M Krasny, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Radiology, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute
Robert M Krasny, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Roentgen Ray Society and Radiological Society of North America
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Chief Editor

Barry H Gross, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School; Professor, University of Michigan Cancer Center
Barry H Gross, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society, Association of University Radiologists, Michigan State Medical Society, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Radiological Society of North America, and Society of Thoracic Radiology
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

 
 
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