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- Title
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-producing adrenocortical carcinoma — Long survival with various therapeutic strategies including a lung resection: Report of a case.
- Authors
Satoshi Yoneda; Takayuki Shirakusa; Hiroshi Shirahama; Yukie Tashiro; Akinori Iwasaki; Takeshi Shiraishi; Hirohumi Tsuru
- Abstract
Abstract We experienced a very rare case of late pulmonary metastasis from ACC. The patient was a 40-year-old woman who had undergone a left adrenectomy 12 years earlier. Instead of a large metastatic lung tumor with hemothorax and the existence of metastases in other organs, combined therapy of repeated resections for metastases and adjuvant therapy allowed for almost a 36-month survival following the first recurrence and a good quality of life. In addition, a blood and pathological study revealed that the tumor in this case was an alpha-fetoprotein-producing ACC, which is, as far as we could ascertain, the first case of its kind.
- Subjects
METASTASIS; DISEASES in older women; LUNG tumors; LUNG cancer; LUNG diseases; ADJUVANT treatment of cancer; ALPHA fetoproteins
- Publication
Surgery Today, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 3, p275
- ISSN
0941-1291
- Publication type
Article