Transbronchial Dissemination of Squamous Cell Lung Cancer

We report a case of squamous cell lung cancer with transbronchial dissemination in a 73-year-old man. Bronchoscopic examination revealed multiple bronchial mucosal nodules that existed independently of one another. We reviewed 16 previous cases of endobronchial metastasis in lung cancer. All patient...

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Autores principales: Tadokoro, Akira, Kanaji, Nobuhiro, Ishii, Tomoya, Watanabe, Naoki, Inoue, Takuya, Kadowaki, Norimitsu, Bandoh, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2015
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Case-Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26672760
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CMO.S32707
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Sumario:We report a case of squamous cell lung cancer with transbronchial dissemination in a 73-year-old man. Bronchoscopic examination revealed multiple bronchial mucosal nodules that existed independently of one another. We reviewed 16 previous cases of endobronchial metastasis in lung cancer. All patients were men. Among the reports that described the smoking history, most patients were smokers (6/7), and the most frequent histological type of cancer was squamous cell carcinoma (11/17). Although hematogenous and lymphogenous routes have been reported as metastatic mechanisms, no previous cases involving transbronchial dissemination have been described. Transbronchial dissemination may be an alternative pathway of endobronchial metastasis.

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