Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis

Surgical emergencies caused by bowel metastases from carcinoma of the lung are very rare. We describe two cases of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastatic small cell carcinoma: the first one concerns a 69-year-old man with an acute abdomen and the second is a 72-year-old man complaining of a gastric...

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Autores principales: Guérin, E., Gilbert, O., Dequanter, D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/903897
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author Guérin, E.
Gilbert, O.
Dequanter, D.
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description Surgical emergencies caused by bowel metastases from carcinoma of the lung are very rare. We describe two cases of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastatic small cell carcinoma: the first one concerns a 69-year-old man with an acute abdomen and the second is a 72-year-old man complaining of a gastric ulcer symptoms. We also discuss the current management and the prognosis of these patients.
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spelling pubmed-27622412009-10-19 Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis Guérin, E. Gilbert, O. Dequanter, D. Case Rep Med Case Report Surgical emergencies caused by bowel metastases from carcinoma of the lung are very rare. We describe two cases of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastatic small cell carcinoma: the first one concerns a 69-year-old man with an acute abdomen and the second is a 72-year-old man complaining of a gastric ulcer symptoms. We also discuss the current management and the prognosis of these patients. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2762241/ /pubmed/19841757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/903897 Text en Copyright © 2009 E. Guérin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Guérin, E.
Gilbert, O.
Dequanter, D.
Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title_full Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title_fullStr Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title_full_unstemmed Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title_short Acute Abdomen: A Rare Presentation of Lung Cancer Metastasis
title_sort acute abdomen: a rare presentation of lung cancer metastasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/903897
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