title: Solitary splenic metastasis of squamous lung cancer: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lung cancer is the second commonest malignant tumour, with its splenic metastasis being a rare event.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report an exceedingly rare case of a moderate-to-low differentiation squamous cell lung carcinoma in a middle-aged man with a large solitary splenic metastasis detected simultaneously with the primary tumour. Surgical removal of both the primary tumour and the solitary splenic metastasis offered the patient the best treatment option.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The significance of the present case lies on the one hand in the appearance of a large solitary splenic metastasis from a squamous lung cancer at the time of its initial presentation and on the other in the successful excision of both lesions simultaneously.
authors.affiliation: Lung Unit, Papageorgiou Hospital, Ring Road N Efkarpia, Thessaloniki 56403, Greece.
authors.forename: Diamantis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chloros
authors.forename: Grigorios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bitzikas
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kakoura
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chatzikostas
authors.forename: Charlie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Makridis
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tsitouridis