Melena: A rare complication of duodenal metastases from primary carcinoma of the lung

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1282-1285

  Kostakou, Chrysoula ^a   Khaldi, Lubna ^a   Flossos, Andrew ^a   Kapsoritakis, Andreas N ^a   Potamianos, Spiros P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Duodenal metastases; Lung cancer; Melena

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DUODENUM METASTASIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JEJUNUM; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; MELENA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; RARE DISEASE; STAINING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

EID: 34247154482     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i8.1282     Document Type: Article

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