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Gastric Metastasis of Lung Cancer Mimicking an Adrenal Tumor

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths worldwide. Metastatic spreads of lung cancer are often found in the adrenal glands, bone, liver, brain and kidneys; the gastrointestinal tract is less commonly involved. However, according to some reports in the literature, the incidence of g...

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Autores principales: Hung, Tsung I, Chu, Kuang-En, Chou, Yenn Hwei, Yang, Kuo-Ching
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000360845
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Sumario:Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths worldwide. Metastatic spreads of lung cancer are often found in the adrenal glands, bone, liver, brain and kidneys; the gastrointestinal tract is less commonly involved. However, according to some reports in the literature, the incidence of gastrointestinal metastases, most of them asymptomatic, might be as frequent as 11% in autopsy studies of lung cancer, which suggests that this condition is not as rare as it was previously considered. We report a very rare case of small cell lung cancer with a solitary gastric metastasis mimicking an adrenal tumor which was belatedly diagnosed due to its unusual presentation and treated actively with surgery and chemotherapy, achieving a relatively favorable outcome.