The first cause of mortality due to cancer in Spanish men is the lung neoplasm. Over 70% of cases are diagnosed in advanced stadium, being the curative treatment of them unusual. Despite the chemo-radiotherapy, in most cases the disease progresses, metastases occur at other levels, more frequently in lymph nodes, liver, adrenal glands, bone and brain (1). Not only the intestinal spread is rare, being the squamous cell carcinoma the most frequent (1), but our patient with mesenteric metastasis has unprecedented case. A comprehensive bibliography search (PubMed ® ), including studies of intestinal metastases and soft tissues in the last 26 years, did not make any reference. The clinical manifestations of these metastases are uncommon (2): bleeding, malabsortion, intestinal perforation (3) and obstruction, the most common thing (1-3).
Case report
Apendicitis del muñón apendicular: dos casos clínicos y revisión de la bibliografía Palabras clave: Apendicectomía. Apendicitis del muñón. Muñón apendicular. Peritonitis.
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