Splenic metastasis of lung cancer.
Splenic metastasis from a lung cancer is infrequently noted, however, the pattern of the metastasis has not been studied, thus we conducted a retrospective study. Twelve of the consecutive 997 patients with lung cancer, who were admitted to our division, developed splenic metastasis. The pattern of splenic metastasis involved solitary nodule in 7 patients (58.3%); multiple nodules in 4, and microscopic metastasis in 1. All of the 12 patients had other abdominal organ metastasis. Splenic mass accompanying metastasis to other abdominal organs in a patient with a known lung cancer should be regarded as a metastasis.
Satoh
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Division of Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. hirosato@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Watanabe
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K
Ishikawa
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H
Yamashita
Y T
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Ohtsuka
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M
Sekizawa
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K
D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*