- 著者
- Kenji Nakahama Hiroyasu Kaneda Koichi Ogawa Yoshiya Matsumoto Yoko Tani Tomohiro Suzumura Shigeki Mitsuoka Tetsuya Watanabe Kazuhisa Asai Tomoya Kawaguchi
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.61, no.7, pp.1039-1042, 2022-04-01 (Released:2022-04-01)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
- 3
A 68-year-old Japanese man was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma stage IVB. We introduced a first-line chemotherapy of four cycles of carboplatin and pemetrexed and pembrolizumab, followed by pemetrexed and pembrolizumab maintenance therapy. Approximately four months after anticancer therapy, a small nodule appeared in the right peripheral S3 lesion. After five months, the nodule was confirmed as a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) nodule. We initiated anti-TB therapy without stopping pembrolizumab, and the right S3 nodule shrank immediately. This report supports the concurrent use of anti-TB treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor when the TB infection area is limited.