[A case of metachronous lung cancer in which tumor developed within the different ipsilateral lobe over a short period of time and completion pneumonectomy was required].
A 51-year-old man underwent a middle-lower lobectomy for squamous cell carcinoma on February 8, 1996. In July, 1997, a computed tomography revealed a mass shadow in the right upper lung field. Completion pneumonectomy was performed. Histopathological examination showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. This case was the shortest time to occurrence of second tumor in our metachronous lung cancer cases. We must always give attention to exist second primary lung cancer and double primary lung cancer after resection of primary lung cancer.
Yamazaki
A
A
Second Department of Surgery, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Japan.
Masuda
S
S
Ohse
Y
Y
Tahara
M
M
Nakahara
K
K
Hayashi
I
I
Yamashita
Y
Y
Yakumaru
K
K
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012086:Reoperation