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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-14
pubmed:abstractText
We herein report two cases of pulmonary metastasis from renal cell carcinoma with 17-year disease-free intervals. Despite long disease-free intervals, their clinical course after pulmonary resection was different. An 82-year-old man (case 1) and a 73-year-old man (case 2), with histories of having undergone left nephrectomy for clear-cell-type renal cell carcinoma 17 years ago, were found to have right pulmonary nodules, which were detected incidentally by chest roentgenograms. A chest computed tomography revealed the presence of nodules in the right lung. They underwent surgical pulmonary resection 17 years after nephrectomy. These tumors were diagnosed as metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Currently, the case 1 patient is doing well with no signs of recurrence 42 months after pulmonary metastasectomy; however, the case 2 patient was found to have multiple tumor recurrences 11 months after metastasectomy. Their clinical courses indicate that a longer disease-free interval does not always imply a favorable prognosis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1341-1098
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-91
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Pulmonary metastasis from renal cell carcinoma 17 years after nephrectomy: report of two cases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports