[Long-term survival case of @entity151 with XXXX without anticancer therapy].

@entity1 @entity12418 @entity353 @entity5 @entity425 @entity1277 @entity1576 @entity7235 @entity151 @entity6830
A 78-year-old @entity1 with complaints of @entity1277 and @entity353 visited our hospital in November 2006. Positron-emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) showed swollen lymph nodes in the abdominal para-aorta, @entity6830 and neck, with intense FDG accumulation. The pathological findings of the cervical lymph nodes revealed @entity5 . We diagnosed extensive @entity151 ( @entity151 ), which occurred primarily in the left upper lobe. As subsequent CT revealed spontaneous shrinkage of the pulmonary nodule and swollen lymph nodes, the clinical course was monitored without anticancer therapy. In February 2007, progressive @entity425 of the lower extremities developed. In July he was admitted with @entity1576 and required mechanical ventilation. Although we did not administer anticancer therapy due to his poor performance status, he survived for 30 months receiving mechanical ventilation, and the @entity5 continued to grow moderately. We diagnosed @entity7235 ( @entity7235 ) based on the clinical symptoms, the presence of anti-VGCC antibodies and waxing phenomenon on electromyography obtained in April 2009. Chemotherapy with @entity12418 shrank the @entity5 , but his @entity425 did not improve. Previous reports showed that a prognosis of @entity151 with @entity7235 was better than that without @entity7235 . In this case, the @entity5 showed spontaneous regression without any anticancer therapy, and then increased moderately. The immune response was considered to have affected @entity5 growth.
