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Vol.38 No.7 contents | Japanese/English |
- Case Report -
A Case of Resected Left Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Accompanied by Extra Adrenal Pheochromocytoma
Akio Yamazaki, Sadahiko Masuda, Yoshio Oose, Minoru Tahara, Kazuki Nakahara and Kazuhiro Yakumaru*The Second Department of Surgery, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, *The Department of Pathology
A 62-year-old man was admitted with an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film. He had an anamnesis of hypertension and was taking an antihypertensive agent. The irregular 45×25 mm shadow was recognized in the left upper lung field on chest X-ray and CT. Whole body CT examination revealed that the left adrenal gland had an internal heterogeneous shadow. Tests on hormone values in the blood and urine, abdominal MRI, and 123I-MIBG scintiscaning yielded a diagnosis of pheochromocytoma preoperatively. Considering the preoperative and postoperative hemodynamics, surgery for pheochromocytoma was performed initially. Extirpation of tumor on the left adrenal gland method was performed on January 27, 1997. The neoplasm had developed outside the adrenal body and there was no infiltration to the adrenal body. One month after the first operation, on February 27, 1997, left upper lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection (R2b) were performed. The pathologic diagnosis was poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma, and the postoperative classification was p-t3n0m0 stage IIB. The preoperative and postoperative hemodynamics were stable and were safely controlled. It was considered that, in lung cancer accompanied by pheochromocytoma,lobectomy can be conducted safely it surgery for pheochromocytoma is performed beforehand.
key words: Lung cancer, Pheochromocytoma, Chromaffin cell, Paraganglioma
Received: May 26, 1998
Accepted: September 21, 1998
JJLC 38 (7): 871-875, 1998
