A Case of Suspected Metastatic Lung Cancer With Delayed Neurologic Presentation
Abiola Kehinde, Rithvik Rai, Pankaj Pankaj · 2024
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Abiola Kehinde, Rithvik Rai, and Pankaj Pankaj present a misleading cancer case in a 2024 report. An 81-year-old man arrived with weight loss, a seizure, swallowing trouble, and hearing that was failing fast in one ear. The brain symptoms pointed first to the head, not the chest.
Scans showed several spots in the brain that were first read as benign vascular knots. Deeper workups found a malignant mass in the right lung with widespread spread through the lungs, matching the brain lesions. The team settled on metastatic lung cancer and shifted to comfort-focused, multidisciplinary care given the poor outlook. The case warns clinicians that new neurological signs in an older patient can be a cancer's first announcement. It also shows how early scan impressions can mislead, and why teams must revisit them when the story does not fit.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abiola Kehinde, Rithvik Rai, Pankaj Pankaj |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |