An Autopsy Case Complicating with Pulmonary Cancer and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Abstract

The case was an 81 years old female patient who was admitted into our hospital with chief complaints of fever and anorexia. She died 9 days after hospitalization. The autoptic findings identified highly differentiated adenocacinoma in the lungs plus non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Reference survey revealed that there had been only 2 cases of complication of squamous cell cancer of the lungs with malignant lymphoma in Japan, and we have experienced none of such case of complication. In checking a patient at high age, it would be important to carefully examine the status praesens with regards to complication of some malignant tumor.