## Abstract A 65βyearβold man presented with progessive dysphagia, which proved to be the first clinical manifestation of a periperal lung carcinoma (secondary to a submucosal metatasis in the esophagus). The lung tumor, hidden by the diaphragm on chest xβray, was not suspected until a thoracotomy
Clinically significant intestinal metastasis from a primary bronchogenic carcinoma
β Scribed by Don M. Morris; Edwin A. Deitch
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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β¦ Synopsis
Although abdominal metastasis from lung cancer are not unusual postmortem findings, they are rarely of clinical significance. Our patient's clinical course was complicated by intestinal obstruction secondary to metastatic lung cancer. With the current epidemic of lung cancer, we can expect more patients with abdominal complaints secondary to metastatic disease. In these patients, survival time averaged less than 60 days.
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