A Rare Cause of Small Bowel Transection: Metastatic Lung Cancer
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A rare cause of small bowel transection: metastatic lung cancer.
OBJECTIVE To present a case of small bowel perforation due to metastatic lung cancer. CASE PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 78-year-old male patient, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer 3 months earlier, presented to our clinic with acute abdominal pain. He underwent emergency laparotomy. At surgery, there was a circumferential lesion encompassing the ileum with complete transection. There...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Principles and Practice
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1423-0151,1011-7571
DOI: 10.1159/000285300