Abstract

Abstract: We present one case with symptom of paroxysmal abdominal pain for over 20 days. Abdominal computerized tomography (CT) scan revealed intestinal obstruction and a mass of 6.0 cm × 6.0 cm in size located at the left adrenal. Chest CT scan showed a lobulated mass of 2.7 cm × 2.7 cm in size at the upper left lung. Core needle biopsy of the lung mass confirmed the diagnosis of large cell carcinoma. The patient underwent an emergency abdominal laparotomy and received a chemotherapy regimen that consisted of pemetrexed and cisplatin postoperatively. In addition, we made a review of the literature of the occurrence, diagnosis and outcome of this manifestation.

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Title
Acute small bowel obstruction: a rare initial presentation for the metastasis of the large-cell carcinoma of the lung
Author
Song, Yongmao; Li, Modan; Shan, Jianzhen; Ye, Xiaoxian; Tang, Shangyi; Fang, Xuefeng; Ding, Kefeng; Yuan, Ying
First page
26
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
14777819
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-26
ProQuest document ID
922401048
Copyright
© 2012 Song et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.