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Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report
Metastatic disease to the orbit occurs in up to 7% of cancers. In approximately 20% of cases, there is no diagnosis of cancer at the time of presentation with orbital metastatic disease. This is a case of a 53-year-old female smoker whose initial presentation of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-89 |
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| author | Azad, Arun |
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| description | Metastatic disease to the orbit occurs in up to 7% of cancers. In approximately 20% of cases, there is no diagnosis of cancer at the time of presentation with orbital metastatic disease. This is a case of a 53-year-old female smoker whose initial presentation of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer was with an orbital metastasis. |
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| spelling | pubmed-25260672008-08-28 Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report Azad, Arun Cases J Case Report Metastatic disease to the orbit occurs in up to 7% of cancers. In approximately 20% of cases, there is no diagnosis of cancer at the time of presentation with orbital metastatic disease. This is a case of a 53-year-old female smoker whose initial presentation of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer was with an orbital metastasis. BioMed Central 2008-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2526067/ /pubmed/18700958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-89 Text en Copyright © 2008 Azad; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Azad, Arun Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title_full | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title_short | Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| title_sort | metastatic non-small cell lung cancer presenting with an orbital metastasis: a case report |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-89 |
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