Thymic carcinoma treated with intensive chemotherapy and radiation.

A 48-year old male presented with undifferentiated thymic carcinoma without distant metastasis. The patient was treated with intensive systemic chemotherapy with cisplatin, vincristine, adriamycin and etoposide, intrapleural instillation of adriamycin and OK-432, intrapericardial instillation of mitomycin C and subsequent radiation to the mediastinum. The combined treatment resulted in regression of the primary tumor and disappearance of pleural effusion and pericardial effusion.

[A case of sarcoidosis with elevated SCC antigen in the serum and broncho-alveolar lavage fluid which was difficult to distinguish from lung cancer].

A case of sarcoidosis with a high level of SCC antigen in the serum and broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) which was difficult to distinguish from lung cancer is reported. A 66-year-old female was admitted with a fever, sputum and coughing. Chest X-ray on admission showed bilateral hilar swelling and infiltrative shadows in the left lower lung.