An extremely rare case of adrenocortical cancer with cannon ball pulmonary metastasis

An extremely rare case of adrenocortical cancer with cannon ball pulmonary metastasis

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Multiple pulmonary nodules on chest X-ray, known commonly as cannon ball secondaries, are the classical presentation of hematogenous dissemination of a malignant tumor to the lungs.This almost always indicates here an advanced stage of the disease with a very grim outlook in terms of cure or survival.In this case report, we present a patient with very extensive cannon ball lung metastases due to adrenocortical carcinoma with a more favorable prognosis.This is the first case described in the literature of cannonball lung metastases from offworld drum pads adrenocortical tumor in a man.