Gastro-intestinal metastasis of primary lung carcinoma: Clinical presentations and outcome
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Chau-Chyun Sheu; Inn-Wen Chong; Wang-Yi Kang; Chih-Jen Yang; Tung-Heng Wang; Jhi-Jhu Hwang; Jong-Rung Tsai; Ming-Shyan Huang
- Source
- Lung Cancer. 54:319-323
- Subject
- Male
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms
medicine.medical_treatment
Gastroenterology
Small-cell carcinoma
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
Metastasis
Stomach Neoplasms
Laparotomy
Internal medicine
Intestinal Neoplasms
medicine
Carcinoma
Humans
Lung cancer
Aged
Lung
business.industry
Respiratory disease
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
digestive system diseases
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Oncology
Adenocarcinoma
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0169-5002
Symptomatic gastro-intestinal (GI) metastasis in lung carcinomas is extremely rare and only a few case reports have been published. Here we review all of the cases of lung cancer from January 2003 to April 2005 in a tertiary teaching hospital in Taiwan. A total of six patients (1.77%, 6/339) with primary lung cancer demonstrated symptomatic gastro-intestinal metastasis. Three patients had squamous cell carcinoma, one had adenocarcinoma, and two had small cell carcinoma. Three patients with gastric metastasis were diagnosed via gastro-endoscopy while one with cecal involvement was diagnosed via colon fiberscopy. Two patients with small bowel perforation and intussusception were diagnosed via laparotomy. We presented these rare cases and made a review of the literature.