A case of surgically resected lung cancer in a patient with Kartagener's syndrome.

Kartagener's syndrome is a rare inherited disorder with a triology of symptoms (bronchiectasis, sinusitis and situs inversus) and is also associated with abnormalities of the cilia of the respiratory epithelium. Lung cancer arising in Kartagener's syndrome is very rare and to date only 5 cases have been reported in the English and Japanese literature. We report on a case of a 65-year-old Japanese male Kartagener's syndrome patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. A left pneumonectomy was performed and no recurrence was found within 2 years.