DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Surgical restaging
Lung cancer staging
In medicine, lung cancer staging is the assessment of the extent to which a lung cancer has spread from its original source. As with most cancers, staging is an important determinant of treatment and prognosis. In general, more advanced stages of cancer portend a poorer prognosis and are less amenable to treatment. There are several methods, or modalities, by which this assessment is made. They are broadly classified into non-invasive techniques, which generally involve medical imaging of the lungs such as computer tomography (CT) scans, and invasive techniques such as biopsy...
Surgical restaging - List of case studies
- Stage IV Melanoma
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metastatic spreading around the lymph node, and underwent surgical treatment: radical lymphoadenectomy of the right armpit, splenectomy, ... 1.8 x 0.7 cm on the right arm in the anterocubital region. Restaging is scheduled in March; chemotherapy planned for 03/2009 ...
- Cystic Pleuro-Pulmonary Blastoma – additional opinion
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with chemotherapy using 3 cycles of VAIA followed by restaging and aggressive surgical resection. questions: ...
- Metastatic melanoma stage IIIC
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Upon enlargement detection reported by the relatives, a surgical excision was indicated. One month later, the surgical excision ... also underwent the FDG PET/CT exam for surgical restaging. The medical report was indicative of: “the PET/CT study of ...