Simultaneous pulmonary metastases from colon and prostate cancer to the same lobe.

Surg Case Rep

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Sumiyoshi 2-12-12, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 430-8558, Japan.

Published: December 2015

Simultaneous pulmonary metastases from different primary tumors to the same lobe are extremely rare, and we herein report the case. Surgical specimen of the pulmonary metastasis from colon cancer contained two additional nodules that were confirmed as metastases from prostate cancer. Pulmonary metastasis from prostate cancer rarely forms nodules, and there is a discrepancy in the incidence of pulmonary metastases between autopsy and clinical findings. This case suggests that different malignant tumors could simultaneously metastasize to the same pulmonary lobe, and more pulmonary metastases from prostate cancer might exist than expected.

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