title: [Intestinal metastases from lung cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Intestinal metastasis from primary lung cancers is rare and usually asymptomatic.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report two cases of symptomatic small bowel metastasis. The first one presented with a persistent anaemia occurring in a 54 year old man who had undergone a left lower lobectomy for a large cell carcinoma. The second case was a 75 year old man who presented with peritonitis which led to discovery of a lung primary.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intestinal metastasis can be the presenting feature of, or complicate lung cancer. Symptomatology depends on metastasis localisation. Their treatment is difficult and they are associated with a poor prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier de Meaux, Meaux, France. ch-locher@ch-meaux.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Locher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grivaux
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Locher
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jeandel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Blanchon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged