1973 Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 333-337
A 57 year old male came to our clinic with the chief complaint of general fatigue. Radiologicaly an abnormal shadow 2.5×2 cm. in size was found at the middle area of the right lung.
During right thoracotomy, many swollen lymph nodes existed in the mediastinum. One of them was biopsied for pathological examination, which revealed non casiating epithelioid granuloma with metastasis of cancer cells. In 6 months after the operation, a right subclavicular lymph node has been palpable, which was diagnosed as the metastatic lymph node.
The patient was died of general metastasis of cancer cell. At autopsy, the tumor was squamous cell carcinoma and there was no lymph node with sarcoid-like reaction.
On the basis of above mentioned findings, the relationship between cancer and sarcoid-like reaction was discussed.
