A 20-year latency between hysterectomy for endometrial adenocarcinoma and solitary pulmonary metastasis: a case report.
Journal
Journal of surgical case reports
ISSN: 2042-8812
Titre abrégé: J Surg Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101560169
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
06
12
2020
accepted:
26
12
2020
entrez:
12
2
2021
pubmed:
13
2
2021
medline:
13
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We present a rare case pulmonary metastasis of an early stage endometrial cancer nearly 20 years after curative surgical resection. Our patient had a remote history of hysterectomy for endometrial cancer in 1998 and later had Stage 1B right upper lobe lung cancer treated with lobectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy in 2014. She was found to have an enlarging nodule in the left upper lobe in 2018, which was thought to be another primary lung cancer. She underwent left upper lobe segmentectomy for an intraoperative diagnosis of adenocarcinoma by diagnostic wedge resection of the lung nodule. Final pathologic examination of the resected tumor demonstrated an endometrial adenocarcinoma. It is important for thoracic surgeons to remain vigilant, keeping secondary lung cancer in the differential diagnosis for patients with complex oncologic histories.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33575026
doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjaa595
pii: rjaa595
pmc: PMC7867381
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
rjaa595Informations de copyright
Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021.
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