Synchronous Double Primary Cancers of Lung and Liver.

Lim, So Yeon; Sim, Yun Su; Lee, Jin Hwa; Kim, Tae Hun; Ryu, Yon Ju; Chun, Eun Mi; Kim, Yoo Kyung; Lee, Jung Kyong; Sung, Sun Hee; Ahn, Jae Ho; Chang, Jung Hyun

doi:2007.62.4.318

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 62(4); 2007 > Article

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2007;62(4):318-322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2007.62.4.318 Published online April 1, 2007.

Synchronous Double Primary Cancers of Lung and Liver.

So Yeon Lim, Yun Su Sim, Jin Hwa Lee, Tae Hun Kim, Yon Ju Ryu, Eun Mi Chun, Yoo Kyung Kim, Jung Kyong Lee, Sun Hee Sung, Jae Ho Ahn, Jung Hyun Chang

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jinhwalee@ewha.ac.kr
²Department of Radiology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
³Department of Pathology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁴Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Although reports of multiple primary malignant tumors have increased recently, cases of synchronous double primary tumors of lung and liver are rare. A 73-year-old man suffered from chronic cough. His chest x-ray showed segmental atelectasis of the right upper lobe. Bronchoscopy revealed a mass occluding the orifice of the anterior segmental bronchus of the right upper lobe, and a biopsy showed a squamous cell carcinoma. A synchronous hepatic mass was found by ultrasonography. However, F18-FDG-PET showed no evidence of a distant metastasis. The liver biopsy revealed a hepatocellular carcinoma. A right upper lobe lobectomy and a sleeve resection were performed for the lung cancer, and radiofrequency ablation was performed for the hepatocellular carcinoma.

Key Words: Double primary cancer, Lung cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma