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Table 1 All currently reported cases of isolated splenic metastasis.

From: Isolated splenic metastasis from lung squamous cell carcinoma

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Primary lung lesion

Lung lesion side

Time to splenic metastasis

Metastasis symptoms

Follow-up at time of report

Klein[6]

Bronchioalveolar carcinoma

Left

20 months

Abdominal pain

Died 49 months after

splenectomy

Edelman[7]

Poorly differentiated

Adenocarcinoma

Left

0

Asymptomatic

-

Macheers[8]

Large cell undifferentiated Carcinoma

Left

0

Asymptomatic

Died 1 month after

splenectomy

Gupta[9]

Keratinous moderately differentiated Squamous cell Carcinoma

Right

0

Splenic rupture

Died 8 weeks after

splenectomy

Kinoshita[2]

Lung squamous cell

Left

14 months

Asymptomatic

Died 27 months after

splenectomy

Takada[5]

Bronchopulmonary carcinoid

Left

8 years

Abdominal pain

Disease free after 8 years

Tomaszewski[10]

Lung cancer

Left

0

Asymptomatic

-

Massarweh[3]

Poorly differentiated Adenocarcinoma

Left

0

Splenic rupture

-

Schmidt[11]

Moderately differentiated

Adenocarcinoma

Left

4 years

Asymptomatic

Disease free after 2 years

Pramesh[12]

Squamous cell Carcinoma

Left

2 months

Asymptomatic

-

Lachachi[13]

Poorly differentiated Carcinoma

Right

0

Splenic rupture

-

Sanchez-Romero[4]

Adenocarcinoma

Left

0

Abdominal pain

-

Van Hul[14]

Adenocarcinoma

Left

2 years

Asymptomatic

-

Ando[15]

Squamous cell carcinoma

Right

13 months

Asymptomatic

-

Chloros[16]

Moderate-to-low differentiated squamous cell Carcinoma

Right

0

Asymptomatic

-

Tang[17]

Undifferentiated large cell Carcinoma

Right

3 months

Fever

-

Present report

Moderately differentiated Squamous cell Carcinoma

Right

16 months

Asymptomatic

Alive after 12 months