Open AccessA Very Rare Case: Metastatic Inguinal Mass From Primary Lung Cancer
Author(s) -
Mehmet Keskın,
Yusuf Özlem İlbey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
i̇zmir tepecik eğitim hastanesi dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1305-7146
pISSN - 1305-7073
DOI - 10.5222/terh.2021.56933
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , immunohistochemistry , cancer , lung , primary (astronomy) , oncology , pathology , physics , astronomy
Cancers of unknown primary (CUP) that we rarely encounter,conversely rank fourth in cancer-related deaths in males and females. In this case, we aimed to present how the primary of an inguinal mass, which could have been diagnosed as CUP in the 80’s, could be detected using advanced immunohistochemical methods.