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Case Report

Late recurrence of endometrial cancer in the lung mimicking nontuberculous mycobacteriosis

Shingo Miyamotoa  Yoshiaki Furuhatab  Noriko Hiyamab  Misao Ishikawac  Toshio Kumasakac  Tamiko Takemurac 

aDepartment of Oncology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center
bDepartment of Chest Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center
cDepartment of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center

ABSTRACT

A 72-year-old female was diagnosed with endometrial adenocarcinoma of the uterus and treated with surgery, followed by adjuvant external beam radiation therapy to the whole pelvis in 1999. She was referred in 2009 because a nodular shadow had been found on chest X-ray films. Nontuberculous mycobacteriosis or malignant carcinoma was suspected, but examinations by thoracoscopy yielded no definitive diagnosis, so a pulmonary resection was performed. After remaining free of any recurrent or metastatic disease for 10 years, she was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer and successfully treated with pulmonary resection and chemotherapy. Although most recurrences of endometrial cancer occur within the first 3 years of hysterectomy, with some reports we report this rare case, which recurred 10 years after initial treatment.

KEYWORDS

Endometrial cancer  Late recurrence  Metastatic lung cancer 

Received 21 Oct 2011 / Accepted 20 Dec 2011

AJRS, 1(3): 273-277, 2012

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