1988 Volume 28 Issue 7 Pages 889-894
The patient was 66-year-old female. She was referred for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the left S6 on the chest radiograph. The disease was subsequently treated as a tuberculoma. Since the abnormal shadow in the left S6 increased gradually, she was referred to our hospital in August 1986. Bronchoscopy detected a tumor in the left B6 which was diagnosed as mucinous carcinoma. She had a medical history of radical operation for breast cancer in 1963. The finding that both were one and the same mucinous carcinoma led to the diagnosis of breast cancer metastatic to the lung. The cancer was observed to be isolated to one lung; therefore left lower sleeve lobectomy was performed on September 11. This was an unusual case of lung cancer metastatic from breast cancer treated surgically 24 years previously.
