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. 2021 Apr;13(4):2590–2602. doi: 10.21037/jtd-19-3791

Table 4. Reports on pulmonary metastasectomy for head and neck cancer published after 2001.

Author Year Number of patients Overall
survival (%)
Prognosis-associated factors suggesting a worse overall survival
Chen (105) 2008 10 40 Short DFI, male gender
Winter (106) 2008 55 20 Incomplete resection, surgical complications
Geurts (107) 2009 8 25 NA
Shiono (108) 2009 114 26 Incomplete resection, short DFI, LN metastases, oral cavity primary
Mochizuki (109) 2010 23 4 Oral cavity primary
Haro (110) 2010 15 27 Old age
Daiko (111) 2010 27 22 Short DFI, oral cavity primary
Miyazaki (112) 2013 24 N.A. Short DFI, recurrence before lung metastasis
Yamazaki (113) 2015 16 63 Incomplete resection, short DFI
Yotsukura (114) 2015 34 58 Short DFI, old age, histologic type: squamous cell carcinoma
Hosokawa (115) 2016 21 67 Short DFI
Nakajima (116) 2017 58 36 Short DFI, oral cavity primary
Okada (117) 2018 26 58 Old age, high PD-L1 expression
Oki (118) 2019 77 54 Short DFI, histologic type: squamous cell carcinoma, large size of metastases, recurrence before lung metastasis

DFI, disease-free interval; LN, lymph node; NA, not available.