Small Cell Lung Cancer at Subcarina Presenting as a Metastatic Brain Tumor
Journal of Lung Cancer
;
: 24-25, 2010.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-96807
ABSTRACT
A 59-year-old man was rushed to the emergency room. The patient complained of headache with impaired memory function. Brain MRI showed a necrotic tumor in Lt cerebral hemisphere, with severe peritumoral edema (Fig. 1). Pathologic examination of the brain lesion confirmed that the tumor was a small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Chest computed tomography revealed a large soft tissue mass with central necrosis at subcarinal area in spite of an initial normal chest X-ray (Fig. 2). Bronchoscopic biopsy of the polypoid mass at subcarina revealed that the mass was a SCLC (Fig. 3). This is the case of SCLC only with an extrapulmonary symptoms despite of a normal chest X-ray. When metastatic brain tumor was found, appropriate chest evaluation should be performed even though chest X-ray was normal because brain is a common site of invasion of lung cancer.
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Main subject:
Thorax
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Biopsy
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Brain
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Brain Neoplasms
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Edema
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Emergencies
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Cerebrum
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Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
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Headache
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Lung Neoplasms
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Lung Cancer
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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