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Recurrence of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma in transplanted lungs

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Garver, Robert I., Zorn, George L., Wu, Xing, McGiffin, David C., Young, K. Randall, Pinkard, Nanette B.·1999·New England Journal of Medicine

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BACKGROUND: Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is a distinctive subtype of typical adenocarcinoma of the lung that tends to metastasize widely throughout the lungs but less commonly elsewhere. Because conventional therapies for intrapulmonary metastatic bronchioloalveolar carcinoma are generally ineffective, we treated seven patients who had intrapulmonary metastatic bronchioloalveolar carcinoma with lung transplantation. METHODS: Seven patients with biopsy-proved bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and no evidence of extrapulmonary disease received transplants of either one or two cadaveric lungs. At transplantation, all native lung tissue was removed and replaced with a donor lung or lungs. The patients received the usual post-transplantation care given at the institution. RESULTS: Four of the seven patients had recurrent bronchioloalveolar carcinoma within the donor lungs; the recurrences appeared from 10 to 48 months after transplantation. All recurrences were limited to the donor lungs. Histologic and molecular analyses showed that the recurrent tumors in three patients originated from the recipients of the transplants. CONCLUSIONS: Lung transplantation for bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is technically feasible, but recurrence of the original tumor within the donor lungs up to four years after transplantation was common.

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Authors
Garver, R. I., Zorn, G. L., Wu, X., McGiffin, D. C., Young, K. R., & Pinkard, N. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital (US)
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
1999-04-08
Volume
340
Issue
14
Pages
1071-1074
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W1966154452
Cited by
102
References
16
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FWCI
4.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Metastasis and carcinoma case studies
Keywords
bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, lung transplantation, tumor recurrence, donor lung, intrapulmonary metastasis, lung adenocarcinoma
MeSH terms
Adult, Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Neoplasm Staging, Lung Transplantation, Treatment Outcome

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