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Ryoju Sato1, Yasushi Fukuda1, Tadashi Ishida1
1Kurashiki Central Hospital Respiratory Medicine Kurashiki Japan.
Respirology Case Reports
|February 20, 2026
Abstract:
Pulmonary metastases from pancreatic cancer rarely show an alveolar pattern on computed tomography (CT). A 77-year-old man presented with a productive cough; CT showed ground-glass opacities and consolidations, and a tumour in the pancreas was incidentally detected. Biopsy led to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer with lung metastases.
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