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The lungs are the most frequent metastatic site (75% of all cases) [3, 9] and are typical of renal cancer dissemination along the vena cava. Biologically it makes sense to render the lung free of the tumor to prevent its further spread. Local excision of metastases is an effective form of treatment in patients with underlying renal cell carcinoma if only one distant organ is affected; solitary lung metastases occur in l%–4% of all cases [14].
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Branscheid, D., Pomer, S., Krysa, S., Vogt-Moykopf, I. (1994). Survival After Lung Surgery for Metastatic Renal Cancer. In: Staehler, G., Pomer, S. (eds) Contemporary Research on Renal Cell Carcinoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78609-9_4
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