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.