Brain imaging before primary lung cancer resection: a controversial topic.

CONCLUSION: The rate of brain metastases identified in this study was similar to previous studies. This would suggest that preoperative staging of the central nervous system may change the management pathway in a small group of patients. However, for this group of patients, the change would be significant either sparing them non-curative surgery or allowing aggressive management of oligometastatic disease. Therefore, we would recommend pre-operative brain imaging with MRI for all patients undergoing potentially curative lung resection. PMID: 28717395 [PubMed] (Source: Ecancermedicalscience)

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