Solitary lung metastasis diagnosed 30 years after surgery for thyroid cancer.
A 75-year-old woman with a history of extrapulmonary malignancies (ie, thyroid cancer and colon cancer) underwent a lobectomy for a solitary nodule in the left lung. Pathologic examination showed a lung metastasis from papillary thyroid cancer treated 30 years earlier. Solitary metastasis to the lung from thyroid cancer is unusual, and our case presented the long interval from initial treatment to the identification of metastasis. A careful follow-up is mandatory, and one should keep in mind the delayed metastasis in the patient with differentiated thyroid cancer.
Shigematsu
Hisayuki
H
Department of Chest Surgery, NHO Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan. h-shige@ba3.so-net.ne.jp
Andou
Akio
A
Teramoto
Arubi
A
Matsuo
Kiyoshi
K
Oda
Wakako
W
Yamadori
Ichiro
I
Higashi
Ryohei
R
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed