Spontaneous regression of pulmonary metastases from renal cell carcinoma.
One year after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in a seventy-year-old man pulmonary nodules developed which proved to be metastases by needle biopsy. Chest radiographs thirteen and eighteen months later revealed complete spontaneous regression of the nodules without therapy.
Davis
S D
SD
Department of Radiology, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York.
Koizumi
J H
JH
Pitts
W R
WR
D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013997:Time Factors