{"title":"Duodenal Metastasis of a Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature","authors":"Zaouit Maryam, Guebessii Nisrine Bennani, Oudad Fadwa, Khoaja Ayoub, Aaribi Imane, Hejjane Loubna, B. Nadia, Sahraoui Souha, Benider Abdellatif","doi":"10.23937/2643-4563/1710049","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Symptomatic gastrointestinal metastases from lung cancer were considered quite rare given their low incidence, especially the duodenal location. In this article, we report a clinical case of a patient followed for a pulmonary adenocarcinoma revealed by a duodenal metastasis. The patient was a 63-year-old female. She was admitted to the oncology department of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital for a low digestive hemorrhage ‘’Melena’’ complicated by acute anemia. Duodenal metastasis from a primary adenocarcinoma of the lung was diagnosed following histopathological examination supplemented by immunohistochemical analysis of biopsies of the duodenal mass taken under gastrointestinal fibroscopy. Post-mortem studies have confirmed that large cell lung carcinoma is significantly associated with gastrointestinal metastases with an incidence ranging from 30% to 75.9%. For this reason, physicians should consider secondary gastrointestinal locations if patients with lung cancer exhibit digestive symptoms and not relate this symptom to side effects of chemotherapy.","PeriodicalId":93572,"journal":{"name":"International journal of oncology research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of oncology research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23937/2643-4563/1710049","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Symptomatic gastrointestinal metastases from lung cancer were considered quite rare given their low incidence, especially the duodenal location. In this article, we report a clinical case of a patient followed for a pulmonary adenocarcinoma revealed by a duodenal metastasis. The patient was a 63-year-old female. She was admitted to the oncology department of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital for a low digestive hemorrhage ‘’Melena’’ complicated by acute anemia. Duodenal metastasis from a primary adenocarcinoma of the lung was diagnosed following histopathological examination supplemented by immunohistochemical analysis of biopsies of the duodenal mass taken under gastrointestinal fibroscopy. Post-mortem studies have confirmed that large cell lung carcinoma is significantly associated with gastrointestinal metastases with an incidence ranging from 30% to 75.9%. For this reason, physicians should consider secondary gastrointestinal locations if patients with lung cancer exhibit digestive symptoms and not relate this symptom to side effects of chemotherapy.