Turkish Journal of Oncology Turkish Society for Radiation Oncology
Article Open Access Volume 25 · Issue 3 · 2010 pp. 111–114

Mediastinal small cell carcinoma of unknown primary site: case report

Ayşe Nur DEMİRAL1
1 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyasyon Onkolojisi Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
2 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Patoloji Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
3 Adana Numune Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Radyasyon Onkolojisi Kliniği, Adana
4 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
5 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
6 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
7 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, İzmir
Published: 2010 Pubmed: 94954 Article ID: 756
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Abstract
A patient with mediastinal small cell carcinoma of unknown
primary site, which has been reported only rarely in the literature,
is presented in this case report. The patient, who received
chemotherapy (CT) and radiotherapy (RT), is disease-free at
49 months after the diagnosis. As in the small cell carcinomas
located at many other sites, especially the lungs, mediastinal
small cell carcinoma of unknown primary site is sensitive to
CT and RT; thus, this entity should be treated as small cell
lung cancer.

Keywords: Small cell carcinoma; chemotherapy; mediastinal lymph node; radiotherapy

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