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Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung

We report a case of small cell lung cancer that turned out to be a metastatic teratoma from the nasal cavity rather than a new primary cancer. A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed with an immature teratoma of the nasal cavity with a predominant neuroblastomatous component. Small cell lung cancer was de...

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Autores principales: Kang, Min Kyu, Ahn, Yong Chan, Park, Joon Oh, Han, Joungho, Lee, Kyung Soo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16941749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.4.571
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author Kang, Min Kyu
Ahn, Yong Chan
Park, Joon Oh
Han, Joungho
Lee, Kyung Soo
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description We report a case of small cell lung cancer that turned out to be a metastatic teratoma from the nasal cavity rather than a new primary cancer. A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed with an immature teratoma of the nasal cavity with a predominant neuroblastomatous component. Small cell lung cancer was detected by bronchoscopic biopsy 21 months later, and it was treated with concurrent radiochemotherapy as if it had been a new primary cancer. Since a recurrent tumor containing fat-like density grew slowly on the serial chest CT scans after achieving complete response, we reached the conclusion that the small undifferentiated cells could be metastatic neuroblastomatous components from the immature teratoma of the nasal cavity.
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spelling pubmed-26877402009-06-04 Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung Kang, Min Kyu Ahn, Yong Chan Park, Joon Oh Han, Joungho Lee, Kyung Soo Yonsei Med J Case Report We report a case of small cell lung cancer that turned out to be a metastatic teratoma from the nasal cavity rather than a new primary cancer. A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed with an immature teratoma of the nasal cavity with a predominant neuroblastomatous component. Small cell lung cancer was detected by bronchoscopic biopsy 21 months later, and it was treated with concurrent radiochemotherapy as if it had been a new primary cancer. Since a recurrent tumor containing fat-like density grew slowly on the serial chest CT scans after achieving complete response, we reached the conclusion that the small undifferentiated cells could be metastatic neuroblastomatous components from the immature teratoma of the nasal cavity. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006-08-31 2006-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2687740/ /pubmed/16941749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.4.571 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kang, Min Kyu
Ahn, Yong Chan
Park, Joon Oh
Han, Joungho
Lee, Kyung Soo
Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title_full Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title_fullStr Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title_full_unstemmed Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title_short Lung Metastasis from an Immature Teratoma of the Nasal Cavity Masquerading as Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung
title_sort lung metastasis from an immature teratoma of the nasal cavity masquerading as small cell carcinoma of the lung
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16941749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.4.571
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