Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Dissemination of lung cancer to cutaneous sites usually results in a poor prognosis. Pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (PLELC) is a rare tumor, and no therapeutic strategy for it has yet been established. We present herein an extremely rare case of a long-term surviving patient...

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Autores principales: Shima, Takafumi, Taniguchi, Kohei, Kobayashi, Yasutsugu, Kakimoto, Shotaro, Fujio, Nagahisa, Uchiyama, Kazuhisa
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6652011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31340830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1671-z
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author Shima, Takafumi
Taniguchi, Kohei
Kobayashi, Yasutsugu
Kakimoto, Shotaro
Fujio, Nagahisa
Uchiyama, Kazuhisa
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Taniguchi, Kohei
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description BACKGROUND: Dissemination of lung cancer to cutaneous sites usually results in a poor prognosis. Pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (PLELC) is a rare tumor, and no therapeutic strategy for it has yet been established. We present herein an extremely rare case of a long-term surviving patient with PLELC showing subcutaneous metastasis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old woman was diagnosed unexpectedly as having PLELC based on a nodule on her back. After surgical resection of the primary and metastatic lesions, she has remained alive with no recurrence for over 5 years without any additional therapy. CONCLUSION: Even in the case of PLELC with subcutaneous metastasis, surgical management may afford a prognosis of long-term survival. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12957-019-1671-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-66520112019-07-31 Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report Shima, Takafumi Taniguchi, Kohei Kobayashi, Yasutsugu Kakimoto, Shotaro Fujio, Nagahisa Uchiyama, Kazuhisa World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Dissemination of lung cancer to cutaneous sites usually results in a poor prognosis. Pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (PLELC) is a rare tumor, and no therapeutic strategy for it has yet been established. We present herein an extremely rare case of a long-term surviving patient with PLELC showing subcutaneous metastasis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old woman was diagnosed unexpectedly as having PLELC based on a nodule on her back. After surgical resection of the primary and metastatic lesions, she has remained alive with no recurrence for over 5 years without any additional therapy. CONCLUSION: Even in the case of PLELC with subcutaneous metastasis, surgical management may afford a prognosis of long-term survival. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12957-019-1671-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6652011/ /pubmed/31340830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1671-z Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Shima, Takafumi
Taniguchi, Kohei
Kobayashi, Yasutsugu
Kakimoto, Shotaro
Fujio, Nagahisa
Uchiyama, Kazuhisa
Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title_full Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title_fullStr Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title_short Clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
title_sort clinical silence of pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma with subcutaneous metastasis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6652011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31340830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-019-1671-z
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