[Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis Difficult to Differentiate from Local Recurrence of the Metastatic Lung Tumor of the Uterine Cervix Cancer at the Staple-line:Report of a Case]

Kyobu Geka. 2021 Dec;74(13):1132-1135.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 70-year-old woman underwent right S6 segmentectomy and left S6 partial resection for lung metastasis of uterine cervix cancer. Although she received adjuvant chemotherapy, chest computed tomography revealed a new pulmonary nodule on the staple stump of the right lung. We diagnosed the tumor as local recurrence at the stump and planned to continue chemotherapy. However, the size of the tumor increased, and we performed right middle and lower lobectomy. Based on the pathological and bacteriological examinations, an epithelioid cell granuloma infected by Mycobacterium avium was established.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung
  • Lung Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumonectomy
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging