An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report

We report an unusual patient with primary adenocarcinoma of lung causing malignant pleural and pericardial effusions. The diagnosis was made only at autopsy as his staging computed tomography scan of chest was negative for an obvious mass lesion within the lung or pleura. Prior to his death, his sym...

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Autores principales: Ghumro, Muhammad Y, Drew, Lisa, Tariq, Syed M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9401
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description We report an unusual patient with primary adenocarcinoma of lung causing malignant pleural and pericardial effusions. The diagnosis was made only at autopsy as his staging computed tomography scan of chest was negative for an obvious mass lesion within the lung or pleura. Prior to his death, his symptoms were erroneously managed as left ventricular failure and community-acquired pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-28074402010-01-16 An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report Ghumro, Muhammad Y Drew, Lisa Tariq, Syed M Cases J Case Report We report an unusual patient with primary adenocarcinoma of lung causing malignant pleural and pericardial effusions. The diagnosis was made only at autopsy as his staging computed tomography scan of chest was negative for an obvious mass lesion within the lung or pleura. Prior to his death, his symptoms were erroneously managed as left ventricular failure and community-acquired pneumonia. BioMed Central 2009-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2807440/ /pubmed/20084189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9401 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ghumro 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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An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title_full An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title_fullStr An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title_full_unstemmed An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title_short An unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
title_sort unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807440/
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