Open AccessIsolated splenic metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma
Author(s) -
Alloubi Ihsan,
Bourhaleb Zouhour,
Harroudi Tijani
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
thoracic cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1759-7714
pISSN - 1759-7706
DOI - 10.1111/j.1759-7714.2010.00031.x
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , adenocarcinoma , autopsy , spleen , lung , lung cancer , pathology , adenocarcinoma of the lung , disease , cancer
Splenic metastasis from lung cancer is uncommon, and isolated metastasis to the spleen is extremely rare event. Most often they are part of widespread metastatic disease and usually reported at autopsy. We report an exceedingly rare case of metastatic involvement of the spleen in an operated case of lung adenocarcinoma in a 58‐year‐old man diagnosed 12 months after resection.