Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling

Chest wall swelling originating from lung is an uncommon phenomenon that makes its diagnosis a challenging task. We present a case where an 82-year-old man, a lifetime smoker, presented with a chest swelling. The origin of the swelling was an extension of a peripherally located lung malignancy diagn...

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Autores principales: Wadhwa, Manish, Ekabua, Joanna J, Adigun, Aisha O, Singla, Gaurav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8476187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34603878
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17499
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author Wadhwa, Manish
Ekabua, Joanna J
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description Chest wall swelling originating from lung is an uncommon phenomenon that makes its diagnosis a challenging task. We present a case where an 82-year-old man, a lifetime smoker, presented with a chest swelling. The origin of the swelling was an extension of a peripherally located lung malignancy diagnosed with the help of contrast-enhanced CT chest and confirmed as oat(or anaplastic) cell carcinoma on histology. After complete workup it was diagnosed as metastatic small cell carcinoma lung. Patient was managed with palliative chemoradiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-84761872021-09-30 Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling Wadhwa, Manish Ekabua, Joanna J Adigun, Aisha O Singla, Gaurav Cureus General Surgery Chest wall swelling originating from lung is an uncommon phenomenon that makes its diagnosis a challenging task. We present a case where an 82-year-old man, a lifetime smoker, presented with a chest swelling. The origin of the swelling was an extension of a peripherally located lung malignancy diagnosed with the help of contrast-enhanced CT chest and confirmed as oat(or anaplastic) cell carcinoma on histology. After complete workup it was diagnosed as metastatic small cell carcinoma lung. Patient was managed with palliative chemoradiotherapy. Cureus 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8476187/ /pubmed/34603878 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17499 Text en Copyright © 2021, Wadhwa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Wadhwa, Manish
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Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title_full Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title_fullStr Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title_full_unstemmed Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title_short Oat Cell Carcinoma Lung Presenting as Chest Wall Swelling
title_sort oat cell carcinoma lung presenting as chest wall swelling
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8476187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34603878
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17499
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