Letter to the Editor

A Case of Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma with Gastric Metastasis

Authors: Sibel Alpar, MD, Ozlem Kar Kurt, MD, Nazire Ucar, MD, Osman Orsel, MD, Gulden Aydog, MD, Bahar Kurt, MD

Abstract

Lung cancer usually metastasizes the bone, adrenal glands, and brain. It is uncommon in the digestive system, particularly in the stomach. The most common sites of primary malignancy in patients who presented with gastric metastasis is malignant melanoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer.1 Reported incidences of lung cancer metastasis to the stomach vary between 0.2 to 0.4%, in which metastasis of large cell carcinoma was the most common (3.7%), followed by adenocarcinoma (2.4%), small cell carcinoma (1.7%), and squamous cell carcinoma (0.7%).1,2 We herein describe an unusual case of gastric metastasis in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.

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