Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case

There have been several published reports on metastatic lesions in the stomach, but the number of cases have been limited due to the low frequency of the condition. Metastatic lesions in the stomach are usually asymptomatic. A 55-year-old man with known metastatic lung adenocancer exhibited epigastr...

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Autores principales: Altintas, Engin, Sezgin, Orhan, Uyar, Bulent, Polat, Ayse
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16642561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.2.276
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author Altintas, Engin
Sezgin, Orhan
Uyar, Bulent
Polat, Ayse
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Sezgin, Orhan
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Polat, Ayse
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description There have been several published reports on metastatic lesions in the stomach, but the number of cases have been limited due to the low frequency of the condition. Metastatic lesions in the stomach are usually asymptomatic. A 55-year-old man with known metastatic lung adenocancer exhibited epigastric pain, hematemesis, and melena. A bleeding, ulcerated gastric metastasis was found and treated with endoscopic therapy and omeprazole.
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spelling pubmed-26876412009-06-04 Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case Altintas, Engin Sezgin, Orhan Uyar, Bulent Polat, Ayse Yonsei Med J Case Report There have been several published reports on metastatic lesions in the stomach, but the number of cases have been limited due to the low frequency of the condition. Metastatic lesions in the stomach are usually asymptomatic. A 55-year-old man with known metastatic lung adenocancer exhibited epigastric pain, hematemesis, and melena. A bleeding, ulcerated gastric metastasis was found and treated with endoscopic therapy and omeprazole. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2006-04-30 2006-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2687641/ /pubmed/16642561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.2.276 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Polat, Ayse
Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title_full Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title_fullStr Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title_full_unstemmed Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title_short Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Metastatic Lung Cancer: An Unusual Case
title_sort acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to metastatic lung cancer: an unusual case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16642561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2006.47.2.276
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