The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Volume 70 Number 2 March 2003	back to contents

General Articles Small Bowel Perforation Secondary to Metastatic Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature	130-132
George H. Sakorafas, M.D.¹, George Pavlakis, M.D.², and Kyriakos D. Grigoriadis, M.D.³

From the Departments of ¹Surgery, ²Medical Oncology and ³Pathology, 251 Hellenic Air Force Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Address all correspondence to G.H. Sakorafas, M.D., Arkadias 19-21, GR-115 26 Athens, Greece; E-mail: georgesakorafas@yahoo.com.

This manuscript was updated as of March 7, 2002.

ABSTRACT

Small bowel perforation is a rare complication of metastatic lung cancer. We were able to document 35 such cases in the literature in English. Aggressive investigation and early surgery is the only method for providing palliation to these patients. However, morbidity and mortality remain high and the prognosis is dire.

KEYWORDS

Abdominal complications, acute abdomen, lung cancer, metastasis, small bowel perforation.

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