An extremely rare case of adrenocortical cancer with cannon ball pulmonary metastasis

Submitted: March 31, 2019
Accepted: September 12, 2019
Published: October 18, 2019
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Multiple pulmonary nodules on chest X-ray, known commonly as cannon ball secondaries, are the classical presentation of hematogenous dissemination of a malignant tumor to the lungs. This almost always indicates an advanced stage of the disease with a very grim outlook in terms of cure or survival. In this case report, we present a patient with very extensive cannon ball lung metastases due to adrenocortical carcinoma with a more favorable prognosis. This is the first case described in the literature of cannonball lung metastases from adrenocortical tumor in a man.

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Falcone, Vito Antonio, Ilaria Nardi, Maria Mesto, Vanessa Trotta, and Vito Picca. 2019. “An Extremely Rare Case of Adrenocortical Cancer With Cannon Ball Pulmonary Metastasis”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 89 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2019.1076.