Long-term survival achieved by repeated resections of metachronous pulmonary and adrenal metastases of alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer: report of a case

Surgery Today
Chigusa NakahashiAtsushi Ochiai

Abstract

We report a case of long-term survival achieved by repeated resections of metastases from alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-producing gastric cancer. A 59-year-old man initially underwent total gastrectomy with lymph node dissection and resection of the spleen and left adrenal gland, for an advanced AFP-producing gastric cancer. A solitary pulmonary metastasis was resected 2 years later, and then a right adrenal gland metastasis, an inferior vena cava thrombus, and another pulmonary metastasis were resected 6 months, 1 year, and 8 months after each other, respectively. Thus, the patient has survived for 7 years and no further evidence of disease was found at his last follow-up examination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of AFP-producing gastric cancer resulting in metachronous solitary pulmonary and adrenal gland metastases, but not liver metastasis. We report this case to show that for selected cases, surgical resection of these metastases is feasible and may extend survival.

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