A case of intestinal hemorrhage due to small intestinal metastases from primary lung cancer

Korean J Intern Med. 1991 Jul;6(2):79-84. doi: 10.3904/kjim.1991.6.2.79.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / secondary*
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Perforation / etiology*
  • Jejunal Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male