Guérin E, Gilbert O, Dequanter D
Department of Surgery, CHU Charleroi, Paul Janson Boulevard 92, 6000 Charleroi, Belgium.
Case Rep Med. 2009;2009:903897. doi: 10.1155/2009/903897. Epub 2009 Oct 15.
Surgical emergencies caused by bowel metastases from carcinoma of the lung are very rare. We describe two cases of symptomatic gastrointestinal metastatic small cell carcinoma: the first one concerns a 69-year-old man with an acute abdomen and the second is a 72-year-old man complaining of a gastric ulcer symptoms. We also discuss the current management and the prognosis of these patients.