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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Primary lung sarcoma with gastric metastasis and morphological divergence presenting as melena.

Michael J Eiswerth, Alexander Pinter, Samuel Benjamin Reynolds, John Guardiola

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 48% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael J EiswerthInternal Medicine Residency, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA mjeisw01@louisville.edu.
Alexander PinterInternal Medicine Residency, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Samuel Benjamin ReynoldsDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8652-183X
John GuardiolaGastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
University of Louisville · USIndiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 61-year-old man was admitted to the medical intensive care unit following a 2-week history of weakness, lightheadedness and melena resulting in an acute anaemia. Upper endoscopy revealed multiple large gastric masses without evidence of active bleeding. CT of the chest revealed a large right upper lobe mass with bony destruction of the third rib and invasion into the anterior chest wall and mediastinum, as well as a soft-tissue density in the left kidney. Biopsy and histopathological review of both pulmonary and gastric masses revealed two distinct sarcomatous malignancies that, while both from a primary lung source, differed in their morphology. Natural history and behaviour are not well understood in sarcomas due to their rarity, but abdominal metastasis is considered an uncommon event in the progression of the disease. Gastrointestinal bleeding as the presenting symptom of a primary lung sarcoma is an atypical finding with no previously reported cases.

Indexed as

Lung NeoplasmsSarcomaHumansLungMaleMelenaMiddle AgedStomachgastroenterologyGI bleedinglung cancer (oncology)oncologystomach and duodenum

Identifiers

PMID34385220
PMCPMC8362720
OpenAlexW3190137619

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