Clinically significant intestinal metastasis from a primary bronchogenic carcinoma

Although abdominal metastasis from lung cancer are not unusual postmortem findings, they are rarely of clinical significance. Our patient's clinical course was complicated by intestinal obstruction secondary to metastatic lung cancer. With the current epidemic of lung cancer, we can expect more patients with abdominal complaints secondary to metastatic disease. In these patients, survival time averaged less than 60 days.