[Intestinal metastases from lung cancer].
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.
Locher
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Service de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier de Meaux, Meaux, France. ch-locher@ch-meaux.fr
Grivaux
M
M
Locher
C
C
Jeandel
R
R
Blanchon
F
F
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