[Central diabetes insipidus caused by pituitary metastasis of lung cancer]

Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai Zasshi. 2005 Dec;43(12):751-4.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 71-year-old man was admitted with high fever, thirst, polyposia and polyuria. After examination, lung cancer (adenocarcinoma T1NOM1, Stage IV) and central diabitus insipidus caused by pituitary metastasis of lung cancer, were diagnosed. We gave him desmopressin acetate, gamma knife surgery for pituitary metastasis and chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin, and his symptoms improved. However, his lung cancer progressed. Diabitus insipidus caused by lung cancer is rare.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Aged
  • Antidiuretic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Carboplatin / administration & dosage
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Deamino Arginine Vasopressin / therapeutic use
  • Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic / drug therapy
  • Diabetes Insipidus, Neurogenic / etiology*
  • Docetaxel
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male
  • Paclitaxel / administration & dosage
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / surgery
  • Radiosurgery
  • Taxoids / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Antidiuretic Agents
  • Taxoids
  • Docetaxel
  • Carboplatin
  • Deamino Arginine Vasopressin
  • Paclitaxel