Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis

Adrenal metastases often occur in patients with metastasized lung cancer, but symptoms rarely develop. A 45-year-old man presented with right abdominal pain requiring strong opioids due to large right adrenal metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. The tumor was 7.3 × 5.6 × 8.4 cm in size. He was treated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Endo, Masashi, Fukuda, Yukiko, Ogawa, Kazunari, Takahashi, Satoru, Nakamura, Michiko, Kawahara, Masahiro, Akahane, Keiko, Yamanouchi, Yoshitaka, Hagiwara, Koichi, Mori, Harushi, Shirai, Katsuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34720926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000518778
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Sumario:Adrenal metastases often occur in patients with metastasized lung cancer, but symptoms rarely develop. A 45-year-old man presented with right abdominal pain requiring strong opioids due to large right adrenal metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. The tumor was 7.3 × 5.6 × 8.4 cm in size. He was treated with palliative radiotherapy (RT) up to 39 Gy in 13 fractions for this lesion without severe adverse effects. After RT, he had good pain relief, and opioids were no longer needed. Palliative RT for a large adrenal tumor can provide a good analgesic effect without relevant toxicity.

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