Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer

Uchechukwu Stanley Ogu; Garrett Keim; Andrew J Cleary; Robert S Bloch

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjt051

Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer

J Surg Case Rep. 2013 Jul 23;2013(7):rjt051. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjt051.

Authors

Uchechukwu Stanley Ogu¹, Garrett Keim², Andrew J Cleary³, Robert S Bloch³

Affiliations

¹ Easton Hospital, Easton, PA, USA [email protected].
² Drexel University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Easton Hospital, Easton, PA, USA.

Abstract

Splenic metastasis of solid organ tumors is rare; even more so is splenic rupture from metastatic disease. We report a case of a 61-year-old male who presented with splenic rupture and hemodynamic instability, secondary to malignant metastasis from a recently diagnosed left lung cancer.

Publication types

Case Reports