title: Small intestine metastasis from cervical cancer with acute abdomen: A case report.
abstract: Cervical cancer metastasis to the small intestine is a rare occurrence that is easily misdiagnosed as a small bowel obstruction. The present study reports the case of a 46-year-old cervical cancer patient with metastasis to the small intestine, which presented as an acute abdomen due to intestinal obstruction. Enteroscopy revealed no primary intestinal tumors. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy and resection of the tumor of the small intestine. Pathology revealed the mass to be squamous cell carcinoma, limited to the outer muscular layer and serosa. This case demonstrates that small intestine seeding must be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in patients with cervical cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Limei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yangwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Conghua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center and Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behavior, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Gong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: acute abdomen; cervical cancer; metastasis; small intestine