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- Case Report -
A Case of Long Surviving Lung Cancer with Concomitant Multiple Intrapulmonary Metastasis
Hidehiko Matsumoto, Hiroki Ogawa, Hironobu Toyoyama, Masakazu Yanagi, Hiroh Nishijima and Takashi AikouFirst Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University
Background: Generally, lung cancer with pulmonary metastasis has poorer prognosis than cases without metastasis. We report a long-surviving lung cancer with pulmonary metastasis. Case: A 62-year-old man was admitted because of slight fever and hemoptysis. Chest X-ray and chest CT film revealed a right hilar mass shadow and multiple nodular shadows in the right lower lobe of the lung. Right middle and lower lobectomy was done, and histological examination of the right hilar tumor and 12 nodules in the right S8 segment revealed moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, probably due to intrabronchial metastasis from primary hilar tumor. The patient survived more than 12 years and died of cardiac failure. Conclusion: We report a long surviving lung cancer patient with concomitant multiple intrapulmonary metastases.
key words: Intrapulmonary metastasis, Multiple nodules in the same lobe, Lung cancer, Long time survival
Received: January 21, 2000
Accepted: March 8, 2000
JJLC 40 (3): 213-218, 2000
