Kadowaki Toru, Abe Masahiro, Ishimaru Sanae, Ichigi Hiraku, Nishimura Kazutaka
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Ehime National Hospital, 366 Yokogawara, Shigenobu-cho, Onsengun, Ehime, Japan.
Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai Zasshi. 2003 Dec;41(12):884-8.
A 76-year-old man taking anti-tuberculous drugs for active pulmonary tuberculosis was admitted to our hospital requiring further examination of a pulmonary mass in the left upper lobe. He had had right lower lobectomy and partial middle lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer two years before admission. Retrospectively, the left upper lobe mass had been gradually growing for about 2 months. We performed a transbronchial lung biopsy of the pulmonary mass, and diagnosed small-cell lung cancer. This report describes a rare case of small-cell lung cancer appearing during treatment for active pulmonary tuberculosis after non-small-cell lung cancer surgery.
