A Case of Intestinal Hemorrhage Due to Small Intestinal Metastases from Primary Lung Cancer

Although intestinal metastases from lung cancer are not rare at postmortem studies, the development of clinically significant symptoms from the gastrointestinal metastases is very unusual. We report a case of small intestinal hemorrhage leading to intestinal perforation secondary to metastases from...

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Autores principales: Park, Seung Wook, Cho, Ho Joon, Choo, Won Seok, Chung, Ki Suk, Kim, Hak Yang, Yoo, Jae Young, Kim, Joo Seop, Shin, Hyung Shik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1991
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1666957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1991.6.2.79
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Sumario:Although intestinal metastases from lung cancer are not rare at postmortem studies, the development of clinically significant symptoms from the gastrointestinal metastases is very unusual. We report a case of small intestinal hemorrhage leading to intestinal perforation secondary to metastases from a large cell carcinoma of the lung in a 31-year-old man along with a review of the literature.

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