Pulmonary metastases: classification and the need for staging?

Abstract

To analyze pulmonary metastases classifications which are used in Russian and foreign literature at present time. It is proposed the variant of pulmonary metastases staging depending on quantitative and regional prevalence of the process. The development of pulmonary metastases classification is advisable to determine homogeneous subgroups of patients with metastatic lesion for prospective randomized trials in order to obtain objective results about the results of surgical or other local treatment of patients with intrapulmonary metastases.