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Kawaguchi K, Okasaka T, Fukui T, et al. Pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract 29 years after nephrectomy. Surg Case Rep. 2017;3(1):20doi: 10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3.
Kawaguchi, K., Okasaka, T., Fukui, T., Fukumoto, K., Nakamura, S., Hakiri, S., Ozeki, N., & Yokoi, K. (2017). Pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract 29 years after nephrectomy. Surgical case reports, 3(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3
Kawaguchi, Koji, et al. "Pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract 29 years after nephrectomy." Surgical case reports vol. 3,1 (2017): 20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3
Kawaguchi K, Okasaka T, Fukui T, Fukumoto K, Nakamura S, Hakiri S, Ozeki N, Yokoi K. Pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract 29 years after nephrectomy. Surg Case Rep. 2017 Dec;3(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3. Epub 2017 Jan 31. PMID: 28144859; PMCID: PMC5285295.
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Surg Case Rep. 2017 Dec;3(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3. Epub 2017 Jan 31.

Pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract 29 years after nephrectomy.

Surgical case reports

Koji Kawaguchi, Toshiki Okasaka, Takayuki Fukui, Koichi Fukumoto, Shota Nakamura, Shuhei Hakiri, Naoki Ozeki, Kohei Yokoi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan. [email protected].
  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.

PMID: 28144859 PMCID: PMC5285295 DOI: 10.1186/s40792-017-0293-3

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Late pulmonary metastasis from urothelial carcinoma (UC) of the upper urinary tract is extremely rare.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray. He had a history of left nephrectomy with a diagnosis of UC in the renal pelvis 29 years previously. Computed tomography showed a mass lesion in the right middle lobe of the lung that measured 4.9 cm in diameter. A transbronchial biopsy revealed the tumor to be metastatic pulmonary UC, and he underwent right middle lobectomy of the lung.

CONCLUSION: Long-term postoperative follow-up of patients with UC might be necessary after radical nephrectomy.

Keywords: Late metastasis; Long-term latency; Tumor dormancy; Urothelial carcinoma

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