CASE REPORTS  THORACIC SECTION 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2001 October;42(5):701-2

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language: English

Solitary muscle metastasis from lung carcinoma

Santini M., Vicidomini G., Di Marino M. P., Baldi A.

From the Department of Thoracic Surgery, *Department of Pathology Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Recurrence ­after resec­tion of non-­small ­cell ­lung car­ci­no­ma is gen­er­al­ly asso­ciat­ed ­with a ­poor out­come. Limb mus­cle metas­ta­sis ­from ­lung can­cer is extreme­ly ­rare. We ­present a ­case of a 71-­year-old man who pre­sent­ed ­with a sol­i­tary metas­ta­sis to his ­right low­er ­limb two ­months ­after ­right ­upper lobec­to­my for ­lung can­cer (­stage: T2N0M0). Twenty-­four ­months ­after sur­gi­cal exci­sion and chem­o­ther­a­py he is ­alive with­out ­signs of neo­plas­tic dis­ease. We ­believe ­that a ­more aggres­sive ­approach ­might be con­sid­ered for select­ed ­patients ­with sol­i­tary extra­cra­ni­al and ­extra-adren­al metas­ta­sis ­from ­lung can­cer.