Gastric perforation due to metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung.
We report a rare case of the development of gastric perforation at the site of metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung during systemic chemotherapy. We speculated that the chemotherapy-induced necrosis of the metastatic tumor might have led to the gastric perforation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of chemotherapy-induced gastric perforation as a complication of lung cancer treatment.
Suzaki
Noriyuki
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Department of Internal Medicine II, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
Hiraki
Akio
A
Ueoka
Hiroshi
H
Aoe
Motoi
M
Takigawa
Nagio
N
Kishino
Taizo
T
Kiura
Katsuyuki
K
Kanehiro
Arihiko
A
Tanimoto
Mitsune
M
Harada
Mine
M
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D013275:Stomach Rupture / Q000209:etiology*