title: Long-term survival after bilateral adrenalectomy for metachronous adrenocortical cancer.
abstract: We report the case of a female patient with bilateral metachronous adrenocortical cancer who survived long-term after adrenalectomy. In 1991, the patient underwent left adrenalectomy to remove a huge adrenal mass (10 x 9 cm) displaying no hormonal abnormality. Histological diagnosis was adrenocortical cancer. A right adrenal mass (7 x 6 cm) was found 4 years after left adrenalectomy. Right adrenalectomy was performed, and histological diagnosis was again adrenocortical cancer. The patient remains alive with no evidence of disease 8 years after last surgery.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan. hara@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanomata
authors.forename: Mototsugu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muramaki
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Gaku
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kawabata
authors.forename: Sadao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kamidono
mesh_terms: D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D000315:Adrenalectomy; D018268:Adrenocortical Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate