title: Solitary mediastinal lymph node recurrence after curative resection of colon cancer.
abstract: We report two cases of solitary mediastinal lymph node recurrence after colon cancer resection. Both cases had para-aortic lymph node metastasis at the time of initial surgery and received adjuvant chemotherapy for 4 years in case 1 and 18 mo in case 2. The time to recurrence was more than 8 years in both cases. After resection of the recurrent tumor, the patient is doing well with no recurrence for 6 years in case 1 and 4 mo in case 2. Patients should be followed up after colon cancer surgery considering the possibility of solitary mediastinal lymph node recurrence if they had para-aortic node metastasis at the time of initial surgery.
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Norikatsu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noura
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohue
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Keijiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimura
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Motoori
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kishi
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Kunihito
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gotoh
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marubashi
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Akita
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidenori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.affiliation: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Masahiko Yano, Norikatsu Miyoshi, Shingo Noura, Masayuki Ohue, Keijiro Sugimura, Masaaki Motoori, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Kunihito Gotoh, Shigeru Marubashi, Hirofumi Akita, Hidenori Takahashi, Masato Sakon, Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease, Osaka 537-8511, Japan.
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakon
keywords: Colon cance; Solitary mediastinal lymph node recurrence