Acute abdomen: a rare presentation of lung cancer metastasis.
Surgical emergencies caused by bowel metastases from carcinoma of the lung are very rare. We describe two cases of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastatic small cell carcinoma: the first one concerns a 69-year-old man with an acute abdomen and the second is a 72-year-old man complaining of a gastric ulcer symptoms. We also discuss the current management and the prognosis of these patients.
Department of Surgery, CHU Charleroi, Paul Janson Boulevard 92, 6000 Charleroi, Belgium.
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