1991 Volume 31 Issue 4 Pages 533-538
A 53-year-old male case of synchronous triple lung cancer associated with idiopathicinterstitial pneumonia (IIP) is reported. He was admitted because of dyspnea on exertion.Chest computed tomography study showed double lung cancers located in S6 and S3in the right lung associated with honeycomb changes in the bilateral lower lung fields.He died of respiratory failure one month after the initial diagnosis. At autopsy findingsanother cancer was detected at S6 in the left lung. Those three cancers were welldifferentiatedsquamous cell carcinoma. The cancer in right S6 was central type lungcancer and the others were considered to be peripheral type, related to IIP.
