Abstract | INTRODUCTION: PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 61-year-old man who had undergone a laparoscopic-assisted radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer 16 months prior presented with a growing solitary pulmonary nodule. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography showed an abnormal uptake in the nodule without any other organ involvement. A surgical specimen by a thoracoscopic wedge resection proved a diagnosis of a metastasis from prostate cancer. He is currently alive only with worsening pulmonary metastases at 7 years after the lung surgery. DISCUSSION: CONCLUSION: An aggressive surgical biopsy is essential for definitive histopathological and immunohistochemical analyses of solitary pulmonary nodules to distinguish a rare form of an isolated pulmonary relapse from a second primary lung cancer in prostate cancer survivors.
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Authors | Tatsuaki Kosaka, Shuhei Iizuka, Tatsuaki Yoneda, Yoshiro Otsuki, Toru Nakamura |
Journal | International journal of surgery case reports
(Int J Surg Case Rep)
Vol. 90
Pg. 106681
(Jan 2022)
ISSN: 2210-2612 [Print] Netherlands |
PMID | 34953424
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved. |