title: [A case of long-term survival without recurrence from an unknown primary carcinoma after resection of lymph node metastases].
abstract: A 76-year-old woman was diagnosed with intraabdominal tumors at a regular medical check-up. The tumors were resected and were identified as number 8a and 3 lymph nodes with adenocarcinoma. No primary was identified despite various studies; the final diagnosis was of adenocarcinoma of unknown primary. No recurrence developed; the patient has survived for 5 years without postoperative chemotherapy. The patient was disease-free 5 years after diagnosis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of long-term survival of number 8a and 3 lymph node metastasis from an unknown primary carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digestive Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Eisaku
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Shigeki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wakiyama
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikegami
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanaga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed