Accidental transplantation of bronchial carcinoma from a cadaver donor to two recipients of renal allografts.
Malignancy was transferred inadvertently to two patients, each of whom received a renal transplant from a cadaver donor who was found at necropsy to have a small, clinically silent carcinoma of lung. Both recipients died with metastatic bronchial carcinoma of the same histological type as the donor's tumour. The literature on transplanted malignancy is reviewed.
D000328:Adult; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000009:adverse effects*