Small bowel metastases from primary carcinoma of the lung: presenting with gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Upper gastrointestinal system bleeding should be first taken into account when a patient complains of melena. On rare occasions, gastrointestinal bleeding may be due to primary or metastatic tumors of the gastrointestinal system. Here, we present a case in which the localization of bleeding was demonstrated by Tc-99m red blood cell labeled scintigraphy with the final diagnosis of metastases of non-small cell lung cancer to the small bowel.
Sanli
Yasemin
Y
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. yaseminsanli75@yahoo.com
Adalet
Isik
I
Turkmen
Cuneyt
C
Kapran
Yersu
Y
Tamam
Muge
M
Cantez
Sema
S
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013667:Technetium
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013667:Technetium