Small bowel perforation secondary to metastatic lung cancer: A case report and review of the literature

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 130-132

  Sakorafas, George H ^a   Pavlakis, George ^a   Grigoriadis, Kyriakos D ^a  

^a 251 GENERAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal complications; Acute abdomen; Lung cancer; Metastasis; Small bowel perforation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM CANCER; INTESTINE RESECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION;

ADULT; CARCINOSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS;

EID: 0037340199     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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