title: Simultaneous pulmonary and renal malignancy.
abstract: Simultaneous primary malignancy of the lung and kidney has been rarely recognized during life. Three patients with synchronous primary pulmonary and renal cancer are described. The pulmonary tumors were asymptomatic and were discovered on plain chest roentgenography. The renal tumors, also asymptomatic, were incidentally discovered on CT, performed for staging. Although one patient was treated with interleukin-2 for a presumed solitary pulmonary metastasis from renal carcinoma, in all three patients, both the kidney and lung tumors were eventually removed either concurrently or sequentially. Prior autopsy case series are reviewed. In the elderly, synchronous asymptomatic pulmonary and renal malignancy is not surprising, and it should be approached as a distinct clinical problem. With the use of chest roentgenography for screening high risk populations and CT for staging, simultaneous primary pulmonary and renal malignancy will probably be recognized increasingly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, New York.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Libby
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Altorki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Pitts
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Bander
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Frankel
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed