title: [Pulmonary Metastasis from a Phyllodes Tumor of the Breast Developing Sixteen Years after Initial Surgery].
abstract: We report a case of solitary pulmonary metastasis from a phyllodes tumor of the breast appearing 16 years after initial surgery. The patient was a 56-year-old woman who had undergone surgical extirpation of a left breast tumor diagnosed as phyllodes tumor (borderline malignancy) in 1998, and a right breast tumor diagnosed as fibromatosis in 2000. Sixteen years after the initial operation, she consulted our hospital because of a chest X-ray abnormality detected at a screening examination. Chest computed tomography revealed a well defined nodular shadow in the left upper lobe of the lung. Surgery was done since primary lung cancer was suspected. However, pathological diagnosis was a pulmonary metastasis from the phyllodes tumor of the left breast. Right breast tumor was also diagnosed as a metastasis from the left breast tumor by histopathological re-evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kochi Health Sciences Center, Kochi, Japan.
authors.forename: Sung-Soo
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Takabatake
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D003557:Phyllodes Tumor / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed