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J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. 2015 Jun 15;5(3):27388. doi: 10.3402/jchimp.v5.27388. eCollection 2015.

Sister Mary Joseph's nodule in a patient with metastatic small cell lung cancer.

Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives

Sushil Ghimire, Smith Giri, Ranjan Pathak, Mike G Martin

Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA; [email protected].
  2. Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA.

PMID: 26091656 PMCID: PMC4475263 DOI: 10.3402/jchimp.v5.27388

Abstract

We present a case of 56-year-old male with small cell carcinoma of the lung with metastatic tumor nodule of the umbilicus. To our knowledge, this is only the second reported case of small cell lung cancer associated with Sister Mary Joseph's nodule.

Keywords: Sister Mary Joseph's nodule; lung cancer; small cell carcinoma

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