Current Thoracic Surgery
2023 , Vol 8 , Issue 2
Six different types of primary tumors in a lady: multiple primary tumors
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Atatürk Sanatoryum Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey2Department of Pathology, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Atatürk Sanatoryum Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey DOI : 10.26663/cts.2023.0019 Viewed : 3114 - Downloaded : 562 Multiple primary tumors are the ones that develop in the same patient at the same or different times. Each separate tumor should be proved to be malignant by histologic examination to rule out metastatic disease. A 59 year-old female patient was referred to our clinic for a newly diagnosed solitary pulmonary nodule. She is an uncommon case who has six primary tumors; a Kaposi’s sarcoma of extremity, an infiltrative ductal carcinoma of breast and four different types of lung neoplasms. Keywords : adenocarcinoma in-situ, carcinoid tumor, infiltrative ductal carcinoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma