Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence

Adenocarcinoma of the lung infrequently metastasizes to the gastrointestinal tract. We report a rare case of a 65-year-old male with no respiratory symptoms diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung by histopathological examination of metastatic sites which included an ulcer in the gastric body and...

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Autores principales: Badipatla, Kanthi Rekha, Yadavalli, Niharika, Vakde, Trupti, Niazi, Masooma, Patel, Harish K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28344748
http://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v9.i3.129
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author Badipatla, Kanthi Rekha
Yadavalli, Niharika
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Niazi, Masooma
Patel, Harish K
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description Adenocarcinoma of the lung infrequently metastasizes to the gastrointestinal tract. We report a rare case of a 65-year-old male with no respiratory symptoms diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung by histopathological examination of metastatic sites which included an ulcer in the gastric body and a mass in the rectum. Metastatic disease also involved the liver as well. Patient was treated with systemic chemotherapy but unfortunately expired five months after the diagnosis was made.
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spelling pubmed-53486282017-03-25 Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence Badipatla, Kanthi Rekha Yadavalli, Niharika Vakde, Trupti Niazi, Masooma Patel, Harish K World J Gastrointest Oncol Case Report Adenocarcinoma of the lung infrequently metastasizes to the gastrointestinal tract. We report a rare case of a 65-year-old male with no respiratory symptoms diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung by histopathological examination of metastatic sites which included an ulcer in the gastric body and a mass in the rectum. Metastatic disease also involved the liver as well. Patient was treated with systemic chemotherapy but unfortunately expired five months after the diagnosis was made. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017-03-15 2017-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5348628/ /pubmed/28344748 http://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v9.i3.129 Text en ©The Author(s) 2017. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Patel, Harish K
Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence
title Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence
title_full Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence
title_fullStr Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence
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title_short Lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: An enigmatic occurrence
title_sort lung cancer metastasis to the gastrointestinal system: an enigmatic occurrence
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28344748
http://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v9.i3.129
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