https://doi.org/10.5812/iranjradiol.7733

An Unusual Case of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Multiple and Extraordinary Metastases

authors:

avatar Hamid Reza Haghighatkhah 1 , * , avatar Morteza Sanei Taheri 1 , avatar Seyed Mohammad Hadi Kharrazi 1 , avatar Damoon Ghazanfari Amlashi 2 , avatar Mehrnoosh Haddadi 2 , avatar Mahin Pourabdollah 3

Department of Radiology, Shohada-e-Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, drhrhaghighatkhah@yahoo.com, Iran
Department of Radiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Iranian Journal of Radiology: Vol.9, issue 2; 93-98
published online: June 30, 2012
article type: Case Report
received: February 1, 2011
accepted: June 13, 2012

how to cite: Haghighatkhah H R, Sanei Taheri M, Kharrazi S M H, Amlashi D G, Haddadi M, et al. An Unusual Case of Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Multiple and Extraordinary Metastases. I J Radiol. 2012;9(2): 93-98. https://doi.org/10.5812/iranjradiol.7733.

Abstract

Pulmonary adenocarcinoma is one of the major types of lung cancers in which metastasis is not uncommon. Hereby, we report a case of pulmonary adenocarcinoma with multiple muscular, cutaneous, pancreatic and peritoneal metastases. Actually, all these features occurring in one patient makes it an extraordinary case. A rare anatomic variation, double inferior vena cava (IVCs), was another rare manifestation in this case.

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