Unsal Meftun, Kutlar Gokhan, Sullu Yurdanur, Yurtlu Sirin
Department of Chest, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuzmayis University, Samsun, Turkey.
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuzmayis University, Samsun, Turkey.
Clin Respir J. 2016 Nov;10(6):681-683. doi: 10.1111/crj.12275. Epub 2015 Mar 3.
Metastasis to palatine tonsils are rare, accounting from only 0.8% of all tonsillar tumors, so far only 100 cases reported in the English literature. Only a few cases have been reported for small cell and non-small cell lung cancer as a primary site. With a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer, a 68-year-old male patient relapsed after six cycles of chemotherapy in tonsilla palatina and cervical lymph nodes. Patients died 26 months after being diagnosed with lung cancer and 2 months after detection of tonsil metastasis. We present the current case report because of the rarity of metastasis to tonsil in lung cancer.
腭扁桃体转移瘤罕见，仅占所有扁桃体肿瘤的0.8%，迄今为止英文文献中仅报道了100例。以小细胞肺癌和非小细胞肺癌作为原发部位的报道较少。一名68岁男性患者诊断为小细胞肺癌，在接受六个周期化疗后腭扁桃体和颈部淋巴结复发。患者在诊断为肺癌后26个月，扁桃体转移瘤发现后2个月死亡。鉴于肺癌转移至扁桃体罕见，我们特此报告本病例。
