Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis
Adrenal metastases often occur in patients with metastasized lung cancer, but symptoms rarely develop. A 45-year-old man presented with right abdominal pain requiring strong opioids due to large right adrenal metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. The tumor was 7.3 × 5.6 × 8.4 cm in size. He was treated...
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doaj-d75ab70d8d3840cda5b800e05d674dd22021-09-30T08:12:30ZengKarger PublishersCase Reports in Oncology1662-65752021-09-011431266127010.1159/000518778518778Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal MetastasisMasashi Endo0Yukiko Fukuda1Kazunari Ogawa2Satoru Takahashi3Michiko Nakamura4Masahiro Kawahara5Keiko Akahane6Yoshitaka Yamanouchi7Koichi Hagiwara8Harushi Mori9Katsuyuki Shirai10Department of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, JapanDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanDepartment of Radiology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, JapanAdrenal metastases often occur in patients with metastasized lung cancer, but symptoms rarely develop. A 45-year-old man presented with right abdominal pain requiring strong opioids due to large right adrenal metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. The tumor was 7.3 × 5.6 × 8.4 cm in size. He was treated with palliative radiotherapy (RT) up to 39 Gy in 13 fractions for this lesion without severe adverse effects. After RT, he had good pain relief, and opioids were no longer needed. Palliative RT for a large adrenal tumor can provide a good analgesic effect without relevant toxicity.https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/518778non-small cell lung carcinomaadrenal metastasisradiotherapy |
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Masashi Endo Yukiko Fukuda Kazunari Ogawa Satoru Takahashi Michiko Nakamura Masahiro Kawahara Keiko Akahane Yoshitaka Yamanouchi Koichi Hagiwara Harushi Mori Katsuyuki Shirai |
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Masashi Endo Yukiko Fukuda Kazunari Ogawa Satoru Takahashi Michiko Nakamura Masahiro Kawahara Keiko Akahane Yoshitaka Yamanouchi Koichi Hagiwara Harushi Mori Katsuyuki Shirai Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis Case Reports in Oncology non-small cell lung carcinoma adrenal metastasis radiotherapy |
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Masashi Endo Yukiko Fukuda Kazunari Ogawa Satoru Takahashi Michiko Nakamura Masahiro Kawahara Keiko Akahane Yoshitaka Yamanouchi Koichi Hagiwara Harushi Mori Katsuyuki Shirai |
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Masashi Endo |
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Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis |
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Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis |
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Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis |
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Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis |
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Palliative Radiotherapy Provided Good Pain Relief for Painful Adrenal Metastasis |
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palliative radiotherapy provided good pain relief for painful adrenal metastasis |
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Karger Publishers |
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Case Reports in Oncology |
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1662-6575 |
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2021-09-01 |
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Adrenal metastases often occur in patients with metastasized lung cancer, but symptoms rarely develop. A 45-year-old man presented with right abdominal pain requiring strong opioids due to large right adrenal metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. The tumor was 7.3 × 5.6 × 8.4 cm in size. He was treated with palliative radiotherapy (RT) up to 39 Gy in 13 fractions for this lesion without severe adverse effects. After RT, he had good pain relief, and opioids were no longer needed. Palliative RT for a large adrenal tumor can provide a good analgesic effect without relevant toxicity. |
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non-small cell lung carcinoma adrenal metastasis radiotherapy |
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