A RECECTED CASE OF SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG DETECTED 6 YEARS AFTER A LIVING-RELATED KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

The risk of developing malignancies is high in a recipient of renal transplantation due to administration of immunosuppressants for a long time. In these malignancies, lung cancer had been rarely reported.We reported a resected case of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung detected 6 years after a living-related kidney transplantation in a 58-year-old woman. The patient who had been managed by hemodialysis for chronic renal failure due to gestosis for 9 years received a living-related renal transplantation from her sister as a donor in April, 1990. Thereafter, she had been treated by oral administration of azathiopurine and ciclosporin for 6 years. She was pointed out an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray film and was diagnosed as having a lung cancer in December, 1996. A left upper lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection was performed. The pathological diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma with p-T2 N2 MO stage IIIA. The postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged from the hospital on 20th postoperative day.