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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yamanaka, Sumitaka
• Tomoyasu, Hiroshi
• Sakamoto, Atsuhiko

Titel

A case of asbestos-related lung cancer involving a plasterer

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery, 2014/05/15, Vol.28(4), pp.501-504

Ort / Verlag

The Japanese Association for Chest Surgery

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We herein report a surgical case of asbestos-related lung cancer involving a plasterer. A 65-year-old man, who had worked as a plasterer for approximately 50 years, with a smoking history, was incidentally diagnosed with a lung neoplasm. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a nodule with a diameter of 3 cm in the right lower lung and pleural plaques. No other extraplumonary metastatic lesions were present. With a diagnosis of lung cancer after CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy, we performed right lower lobectomy with lymph node dissection. This nodule was pathologically diagnosed as adenocarcinoma, and found to contain a mass of asbestos bodies. It was pathologically discovered that this tumor was an asbestos-related lung cancer. He has not had any recurrence of the lesions for 7 years after the operation.