Spontaneous regression of lung adenocarcinoma: Report of a case.
This report presents a rare case of lung adenocarcinoma accompanied by partial spontaneous regression (SR). A 69-year-old woman with an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray was admitted to the hospital. She was diagnosed to have lung adenocarcinoma with right adrenal metastasis based on a thorough examination. However, a month after the diagnosis, the primary and metastatic lesions markedly shrank on the following computed tomography scan and (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomograph. This was thought to be a partial SR of the cancer, and she was treated with a surgical procedure. She has since remained free of disease for 14 months after the surgery.
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, 36-1 Nishi-machi, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8504, Japan.
Tomohiro
T
Haruki
Hiroshige
H
Nakamura
Yuji
Y
Taniguchi
Ken
K
Miwa
Yoshin
Y
Adachi
Shinji
S
Fujioka
Kohei
K
Shomori
Hisao
H
Ito
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous