1. An extremely rare case of adrenocortical cancer with cannon ball pulmonary metastasis
- Author
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Ilaria Nardi, Vanessa Trotta, Vito Picca, Maria Mesto, and Vito Antonio Falcone
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Male ,Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,Adrenocortical Tumor ,Remission, Spontaneous ,lcsh:Medicine ,Fatal Outcome ,Rare case ,adrenocortical carcinoma ,Humans ,Medicine ,Pulmonary metastasis ,Adrenocortical carcinoma ,Neoplasm Metastasis ,Aged ,Multiple Pulmonary Nodules ,Lung ,business.industry ,lung metastasis ,Advanced stage ,lcsh:R ,medicine.disease ,Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Radiology ,Respiratory Insufficiency ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Adrenocortical cancer ,Cannon ball metastases ,malignancy - Abstract
Multiple pulmonary nodules on chest X-ray, known commonly as cannon ball secondaries, are the classical presentation of hematogenous dissemination of a malignant tumor to the lungs. This almost always indicates an advanced stage of the disease with a very grim outlook in terms of cure or survival. In this case report, we present a patient with very extensive cannon ball lung metastases due to adrenocortical carcinoma with a more favorable prognosis. This is the first case described in the literature of cannonball lung metastases from adrenocortical tumor in a man.
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- 2019