Endobronchial metastasis from stomach carcinoma

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2000 Feb;55(1):6-8.

Abstract

We describe the case of a 57-yr-old female with endobronchial metastasis from stomach carcinoma. Respiratory symptoms began 3 months before the diagnosis of the gastric cancer. Chest computed tomography revealed a reticular lymphangitic carcinomatosis pattern with hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy showed a spread submucosal infiltration which narrowed the apical segment of the left lower lobar bronchus. The biopsy specimen at that level was histologically identical to the gastric primitive cancer. To the authors' knowledge, stomach carcinoma has rarely been reported to give rise to airway metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bronchial Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / secondary
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology*