Salvage lung resections is associated with reasonable survival in well-selected patients with primary and secondary pulmonary lesions

Background: The experience with salvage lung resections for primary and secondary pulmonary malignancies is to date limited and patient selection criteria are not yet defined. We report our experience in this area and present a review of the published evidence. Methods: Twenty two consecutive patients treated with salvage lung resection between March 2008 and December 2015 for local recurrence (n = 11) or persisted tumour (n = 11) were retrospectively analysed. The initial therapy was a high dose radiation (n = 2), definitive chemoradiation (n = 16) and/or palliative chemotherapy (n = 4). Patient characteristics…