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A 56-year-old man had a year of cough and coughing up blood before a bronchoscopic biopsy confirmed small cell lung cancer. About six months later, he developed abdominal fullness and returned for evaluation.
Gastroscopy found two small masses in the body and fundus of the stomach with central ulceration. Biopsy of the gastric lesion showed neuroendocrine markers and TTF-1 expression matching the lung cancer, confirming that the small cell lung cancer had spread to the stomach. Imaging also showed portal-vein thrombosis that was thought to be related to metastatic disease.
He did not receive anticancer treatment after the diagnosis of gastric metastases and died several months later.
This is a lay summary of an account first published by PMC / PubMed Central. Read the original in full
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