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[Jejunal perforation indicating the metastatic extension of a bronchial neoplasm]
J C Cavenaile1, J Blairon, J M Limbosch
1Service de Chirurgie Générale, Institut Médico-Chirurgical d'Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
Acta Chirurgica Belgica
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
After curative pneumonectomy for bronchogenic carcinoma, the first sign of generalization was a peritonitis secondary to the perforation of a jejunal metastasis. The authors review the frequency and etiology of this type of intestinal metastasis as well as the mechanism of perforation.