J Korean Surg Soc.  2005 Feb;68(2):163-167.

Solitary Splenic Metastasis from Carcinoma of Lung

• Ahn YJ
• Kim JE
• Kim YC
• Jung IM
• Heo SC
• Chung JK

Abstract

Splenic metastasis resulting from solid tumors is a rare event, and it is most often diagnosed at the time of autopsy. In those cases of widely disseminated cancer, splenic involvement may be fairly common, but solitary splenic metastasis in the absence of other metastases is exceedingly rare. The reported primary malignancies of patients with splenic metastases include lung, colorectal, endometrial, ovarian, thyroid, pancreatic, gastric cancers and most commonly, melanoma. The author report here on a case of 55- year-old male who was found to have a solitary splenic metastasis 12 months after undergoing a left upper lobectomy for stage Ib (pT2N0M0) adenocarcinoma of the lung and he was then treated by splenectomy.

Keyword

Splenic metastasis; Lung cancer

MeSH Terms

Adenocarcinoma
Autopsy
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
Lung*
Male
Melanoma
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Splenectomy
Splenic Neoplasms
Stomach Neoplasms
Thyroid Gland