title: Metastatic pulmonary leiomyosarcoma presenting with a long disease-free interval: report of a case.
abstract: The prognosis in patients with retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma and its distant metastasis is poor. We herein present an extremely rare case of an 83-year-old woman with a pulmonary metastasis from retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma. The disease-free interval between the resection of the primary tumor and the diagnosis of metastasis was longer than 23 years. She was successfully treated with a video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shin-Kokura Hospital, Federation of National Public Service, Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, Kitakyushu, Japan.
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishikawa
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000556:secondary*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome