A LONG-TERM AND RECURRENCE-FREE SURVIVOR AFTER REPEATED SURGICAL RESECTION OF LIVER METASTASES FROM LUNG CANCER

• Published in: Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zasshi (Journal of Japan Surgical Association) Vol. 66; no. 6; pp. 1308 - 1311
• Main Authors: NIKKUNI, Keiya, MAKINO, Shigeto, SHIMIZU, Takao, NISHIMURA, Atsushi, KAWACHI, Yasuyuki, SHIMIZU, Takeaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Surgical Association 2005
• ISSN: 1345-2843; 1882-5133
• DOI: 10.3919/jjsa.66.1308

We report a long-term and recurrence-free survivor after repeated surgical resection of liver metastases from lung cancer. A 60-year-old man underwent a left upper lobectomy with mediastinal lymph nodes dissection for primary lung cancer (pT2pN0M0 StageIB, squamous cell carcinoma) on December 27, 1997. A year later he was found to have an isolated tumor, 6cm in diameter, in S7 of the liver by abdominal CT scan. A partial hepatic resection was carried out on December 17, 1998, and the tumor was pathologically diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma metastasized from lung cancer. On August 3, 1999, repeated partial hepatectomy was performed for a solitary tumor, with a diameter of 3cm, in S6 of the liver. Pathologic examination of the lesion again showed metastatic squamous cell carcinoma. The patient is presently alive and well without recurrence 65 months after the second operation.