Gastric perforation secondary to metastatic carcinoma of the lung: a case report.
This is a report of a gastric perforation secondary to a metastasis from a primary squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in a 70-year-old white man who was being treated with cimetidine for a presumed benign gastric ulcer. The literature concerning bronchogenic carcinoma metastasizing to the stomach and small bowel is reviewed, and the effect of cimetdine on malignant gastric ulcers is discussed.
D000368:Aged; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D013275:Stomach Rupture / Q000209:etiology*