Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second commonest malignant tumour, with its splenic metastasis being a rare event. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an exceedingly rare case of a moderate-to-low differentiation squamous cell lung carcinoma in a middle-aged man with a large solitary splenic metastasis dete...

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Autores principales: Chloros, Diamantis, Bitzikas, Grigorios, Kakoura, Marianna, Chatzikostas, Georgios, Makridis, Charlie, Tsitouridis, Ioannis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9091
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author Chloros, Diamantis
Bitzikas, Grigorios
Kakoura, Marianna
Chatzikostas, Georgios
Makridis, Charlie
Tsitouridis, Ioannis
author_facet Chloros, Diamantis
Bitzikas, Grigorios
Kakoura, Marianna
Chatzikostas, Georgios
Makridis, Charlie
Tsitouridis, Ioannis
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description BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second commonest malignant tumour, with its splenic metastasis being a rare event. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an exceedingly rare case of a moderate-to-low differentiation squamous cell lung carcinoma in a middle-aged man with a large solitary splenic metastasis detected simultaneously with the primary tumour. Surgical removal of both the primary tumour and the solitary splenic metastasis offered the patient the best treatment option. CONCLUSION: The significance of the present case lies on the one hand in the appearance of a large solitary splenic metastasis from a squamous lung cancer at the time of its initial presentation and on the other in the successful excision of both lesions simultaneously.
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spelling pubmed-28038882010-01-10 Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report Chloros, Diamantis Bitzikas, Grigorios Kakoura, Marianna Chatzikostas, Georgios Makridis, Charlie Tsitouridis, Ioannis Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second commonest malignant tumour, with its splenic metastasis being a rare event. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an exceedingly rare case of a moderate-to-low differentiation squamous cell lung carcinoma in a middle-aged man with a large solitary splenic metastasis detected simultaneously with the primary tumour. Surgical removal of both the primary tumour and the solitary splenic metastasis offered the patient the best treatment option. CONCLUSION: The significance of the present case lies on the one hand in the appearance of a large solitary splenic metastasis from a squamous lung cancer at the time of its initial presentation and on the other in the successful excision of both lesions simultaneously. BioMed Central 2009-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2803888/ /pubmed/20062728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9091 Text en Copyright ©2009 Chloros et al; 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.
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Chloros, Diamantis
Bitzikas, Grigorios
Kakoura, Marianna
Chatzikostas, Georgios
Makridis, Charlie
Tsitouridis, Ioannis
Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title_full Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title_fullStr Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title_short Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
title_sort solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9091
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