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P3.06 - Poster Session/ Screening and Early Detection (ID 220)
- Event: WCLC 2015
- Type: Poster
- Track: Screening and Early Detection
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 9/09/2015, 09:30 - 17:00, Exhibit Hall (Hall B+C)
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P3.06-021 - Lung Cancer Presented with Neurological Symptoms and Diagnosed after Brain Surgery (ID 252)
09:30 - 09:30 | Author(s): E. Tozkoparan
- Abstract
Background:
Lung cancer is still one of the the most important and common mortality cause. Although, the presentation and course of the disease differ with the cell type, usually typical symptoms are seen. The most common symptoms include fatigue, weight loss, shortness of breath, and chest pain. These symptoms especially in smoking patients suggest lung cancer first. But in some cases paraneoplastic syndromes and symptoms of other systems caused by diffusing cancer come forward. Such findings are most common in small cell lung cancers (SCLC) among lung cancers. Because early metastasis and paraneoplastic syndromes SCLC can have very different clinical presentations.
Methods:
To emphasize this issue, we present a case of SCLC having only neurological signs.
Results:
60 years old male patient with a history of 70 pack years smoking, admitted to neurology clinic with vertigo, headache, nausea, and changes in consciousness. Because of the tumoral lesion in the left cerebellum seen in brain computed tomography, he was referred to brain surgery. Although, a preoperative thorax tomography revealed a mass lesion in left lung, he was operated for palliation of neurological symptoms and pathological diagnosis. Intraoperative frozen sampling diagnosed as small cell lung cancer. Patient is still followed by our department and radiation oncology.
Conclusion:
We present this case as a reminder of lung malignancies can be met by different presentations.
