Fell D A, Leavens M E, McBride C M
Neurosurgery. 1980 Sep;7(3):238-42. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198009000-00006.
A retrospective analysis of 80 patients with cerebral metastases from melanoma revealed that 42 patients in whom the metastases were excised experienced a median survival of 5 months, in comparison with a 6-week median survival for 38 patients who were not operated upon. The same survival figures applied when comparing only patients with known Stage 4 disease at the time of diagnosis of the brain metastasis. The surgical mortality rate was 9.5% for the entire series and 5.4% for the 37 patients treated surgically since 1960.
对80例黑色素瘤脑转移患者的回顾性分析显示，42例接受转移灶切除的患者中位生存期为5个月，相比之下，38例未接受手术的患者中位生存期为6周。在仅比较脑转移诊断时已知为4期疾病的患者时，生存数据相同。整个系列的手术死亡率为9.5%，自1960年以来接受手术治疗的37例患者的手术死亡率为5.4%。
