1. Obstructive jaundice at the initial presentation in small-cell lung cancer
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Katsuyuki Kiura, Hiroyuki Yanai, Masayuki Yasugi, Hiroko Toda, Daijiro Harada, Hirofumi Kawamoto, Nagio Takigawa, Eiko Hayashi, Nobuaki Ochi, Etsuji Ishida, Akihiko Taniguchi, and Mitsune Tanimoto
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Case Report ,Gastroenterology ,jaundice ,Metastasis ,small-cell lung carcinoma ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,metastasis ,Lung cancer ,neoplasms ,Porta hepatis ,biliary obstruction ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Jaundice ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,respiratory tract diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Obstructive jaundice ,Small Cell Lung Carcinoma ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,medicine.symptom ,Pancreas ,business - Abstract
Obstructive jaundice sometimes may develop in association with advanced small-cell lung cancer (SCLC); however, SCLC initially presenting with obstructive jaundice is rare. This report presents the cases of two SCLC patients with obstructive jaundice at the initial diagnosis. A 64-year-old male presented with obstructive jaundice due to a tumor at the head of the pancreas. He was diagnosed with SCLC by transbronchial biopsy from a lung tumor in the left upper lobe. Another 74-year-old male was admitted with jaundice due to a tumor in the porta hepatis. He was also diagnosed with SCLC by a fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a lung tumor in the left lower lobe. Both cases were successfully treated with systemic chemotherapy after endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage.
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- 2010