1/6. Metastasis from small cell carcinoma of the lung producing acute appendicitis.A case of acute gangrenous appendicitis with perforation caused by metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung in a 65 year old man is reported. The manifestation of appendicitis occurred more than 4 years after the diagnosis of the bronchogenic carcinoma. With longer survival of patients with disseminated tumors it is probable that new manifestations of those malignancies will be discovered. Acute appendicitis due to metastasis from a distant neoplasm should be considered in the differential diagnosis of right lower abdominal pain in the oncology patient.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/6. pneumonia presenting as acute abdomen in children: a report of three cases.From 10th September 1998 till 5th June 1999, the Paediatric and Cardiothoracic Surgery Units of Sultanah Aminah Hospital Johor Bahru managed three children with lung collapse secondary to pneumonia. The dominant initial clinical presentation in all three cases was acute abdominal pain. Basal pneumonia was diagnosed in two cases post-operatively after surgical contributory causes were excluded intra-operatively. thoracotomy, evacuation of infected debris and decortication of the collapsed lung was done in all three cases. In children presenting with acute abdominal pain, basal pneumonia should be considered as a possible contributory cause.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.4keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/6. A case of bronchogenic carcinoma presenting with acute abdomen.Colonic metastasis of the bronchogenic carcinoma is quite rare. Here we document an extremely rare presentation of the lung cancer that presented with acute abdomen and was diagnosed as intestinal obstruction due to colon carcinoma initially. He underwent an urgent operation and the obliterating mass in the colon was resected and reported as "colon metastasis from epidermoid carcinoma probably of the lung". Afterwards bronchoscopy revealed an endobronchial lesion in the right lower lobe that was diagnosed as poorly differentiated squamous cell lung carcinoma. In this case, colon metastasis was diagnosed before the diagnosis of the primary disease.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.6keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/6. Abdominal crisis due to metastasizing lung carcinoma to the small bowel.A rare case of small-bowel perforation due to metastasizing primary bronchogenic carcinoma is reported. A 64-year-old man presented with acute abdominal crisis from perforation of a metastatic focus in the wall of the small intestine. A 13-cm segment of small bowel, containing a firm mass which surrounded a 1.0 X 2.0-cm perforation, was resected. Because of widespread metastases, the patient received only palliative treatment. He died 27 days after admission. Perforation of a metastatic focus in the small bowel is considered a late complication of carcinoma and indicates a very poor prognosis. This is only the eighth reported case of such a complication of metastasizing lung carcinoma.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/6. Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients with human immunodeficiency virus.BACKGROUND. Since January 1986, more than 20 patients have been seen at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center and the Miami veterans Administration Medical Center with concurrent human immunodeficiency virus infection and bronchogenic carcinoma. Four of these patients were treated surgically with curative intent. methods. The histories, records, operative reports, and pathology reports of the 4 patients were reviewed. RESULTS. The 4 surgically treated patients had stage I T1 N0 M0 lung cancer. Three patients had T4 cell counts of less than 200/microL and were managed by lobectomy. These patients died 5, 3 1/2, and 5 months postoperatively. More recently, a fourth patient had a T4 cell count of 963/microL and was treated with wedge resection. He is currently alive 12 months postoperatively. CONCLUSIONS. It is concluded that surgically treated patients with lung cancer, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and T4 cell counts lower than 200/microL have high mortality and morbidity. Although it may be best to base surgical intervention on the stage of the patient's human immunodeficiency virus infection, further analysis is essential to determine which subgroup of human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients, if any, would benefit from surgical treatment of lung cancer.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1.4keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/6. High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma in a 16-year-old girl.Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a rare uterine malignancy with a variety of morphologic characteristics and clinical courses. We describe a case of high-grade malignant ESS in an adolescent girl, arising in a rudimentary uterine horn and presenting symptoms of an acute abdomen. The patient underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy due to a stage IVA high-grade ESS. An adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment was recommended, but 10 days after her discharge the condition of the patient deteriorated, with diffused metastases into the lungs and the abdomen, and finally she succumbed to the disease 1 month after her first admission to the hospital.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.2keywords = lung (Clic here for more details about this article) |