An Unusual Case of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Multiple and Extraordinary Metastases

Pulmonary adenocarcinoma is one of the major types of lung cancers in which metastasis is not uncommon. Hereby, we report a case of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with multiple muscular, cutaneous, pancreatic and peritoneal metastases. Actually, all these features occurring in one patient makes it an extr...

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Autores principales: Haghighatkhah, Hamid Reza, Sanei Taheri, Morteza, Kharrazi, Seyed Mohammad Hadi, Ghazanfari Amlashi, Damoon, Haddadi, Mehrnoosh, Pourabdollah, Mahin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2012
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Chest Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23329971
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/iranjradiol.7733
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Sumario:Pulmonary adenocarcinoma is one of the major types of lung cancers in which metastasis is not uncommon. Hereby, we report a case of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with multiple muscular, cutaneous, pancreatic and peritoneal metastases. Actually, all these features occurring in one patient makes it an extraordinary case. A rare anatomic variation, double inferior vena cava (IVCs), was another rare manifestation in this case.

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