Surgical resection of a second primary lung carcinoma in a survivor of small cell carcinoma.
Resection of a second primary lung carcinoma in a long-term survivor of small cell lung carcinoma is reported. The patient had adenocarcinoma as the second primary tumor and underwent lobectomy with mediastinal node dissection. He was alive 99 months after the initial diagnosis of small cell carcinoma and 54 months after curative pulmonary resection for his second primary carcinoma.
Inoue
H
H
First Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Iwasaki
M
M
Ogawa
J
J
Shohtsu
A
A
Shioya
S
S
Osamura
Y
Y
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012074:Remission Induction; D012086:Reoperation; D013997:Time Factors