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Ogu US, Keim G, Cleary AJ, et al. Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. J Surg Case Rep. 2013;2013(7)doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjt051.
Ogu, U. S., Keim, G., Cleary, A. J., & Bloch, R. S. (2013). Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. Journal of surgical case reports, 2013(7), . https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt051
Ogu, Uchechukwu Stanley, et al. "Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer." Journal of surgical case reports vol. 2013,7 (2013). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjt051
Ogu US, Keim G, Cleary AJ, Bloch RS. Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. J Surg Case Rep. 2013 Jul 23;2013(7). doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjt051. PMID: 24964457; PMCID: PMC3813486.
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J Surg Case Rep. 2013 Jul 23;2013(7). doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjt051.

Atraumatic splenic rupture secondary to metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.

Journal of surgical case reports

Uchechukwu Stanley Ogu, Garrett Keim, Andrew J Cleary, Robert S Bloch

Affiliations

  1. Easton Hospital, Easton, PA, USA [email protected].
  2. Drexel University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  3. Easton Hospital, Easton, PA, USA.

PMID: 24964457 PMCID: PMC3813486 DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjt051

Abstract

Splenic metastasis of solid organ tumors is rare; even more so is splenic rupture from metastatic disease. We report a case of a 61-year-old male who presented with splenic rupture and hemodynamic instability, secondary to malignant metastasis from a recently diagnosed left lung cancer.

Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2013.

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