[A case of so-called carcinosarcoma of the lung].

A 66-year-old woman was admitted to hospital because of a persistent cough and hemoptysis. Her chest X-ray showed a coin lesion in the S10 area of her right lung. The tumor was resected and its histologic features showed it to be a so-called carcinosarcoma of the lung.

Adult T-cell leukemia by probable horizontal transmission from husband to wife.

A 60-year-old housewife was affected with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) 10 years after her husband died of T-cell lymphoma, which was retrospectively diagnosed as ATL. She had never had a blood transfusion nor any indication of infection by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) from her parents. The report suggested the wife to have developed ATL by horizontal transmission of HTLV-I from her husband 31 years after their marriage.