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Table 1 Endoscopic features of lung cancer with colonic metastases

From: Gastrointestinal metastasis from primary sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: a case report and review of the literature

Author

Time

Numbers

Symptoms

Sites

Colonoscopy (lesion appearance)

Pathology

Gonzalez Tallona AI [13]

2013

1

Rectorrhagia

Rectum

1. Lesion with button-like appearance, raised, smooth edges, and ulcerated in the center

NSCLC

     

2. Polyp

 

Sakai H [14]

2012

1

Abdominal pain

S-colon

Bulky disease with stricture

SqCC

Hsing CT [15]

2012

1

Abdominal pain

A-colon and D-colon

1. A 1-cm lesion at the proximal descending colon which looked like a submucosal tumor with mucosal bridge

Adenocarcinoma

2. Ulceroinfiltrating lesion with spontaneous bleeding in the proximal ascending colon

Cedres S [16]

2012

1

No symptoms (annual health exam)

Rectum

A 3-cm lesion with ulceration

SqCC

Huang YM [17]

2012

1

Abdominal pain

T-colon

A 1-cm tumor with central ulceration

Adenocarcinoma

Xue XY [18]

2012

1

No symptoms

A-colon

A 2-cm tumor with central ulceration

Adenocarcinoma

Fujiwara A [19]

2011

4

Abdominal mass

Colon

Nil

NSCLC

   

Melena

Colon

  
   

Melena

Rectum

  
   

No symptoms

Colon

  

Weng MW [20]

2010

1

Obstruction

Colon

Bulky disease with obstruction

Adenocarcinoma

Ahn SE [21]

2009

1

No symptoms

Cecum

Multiple cecal polypoid masses

Adenocarcinoma

Hirasaki S [22]

2008

1

No symptoms (positive fecal blood test)

D-colon

A 4-cm tumor with central ulceration

SqCC

Ma XT [23]

2008

1

Frequent loose stool

Cecum

Nil

SqCC

Goh BK [24]

2007

1

Abdominal pain

Cecum

Nil

Large cell carcinoma

Yang CJ [6]

2006

1

Bloody stool

Cecum

Diagnosis by colonoscopy, but no picture in the literature

Small cell carcinoma

Stinchcombe TE [25]

2006

1

No symptoms

A-colon

A 2-cm tumor with central ulceration

SqCC

Habesoglu MA [26]

2005

1

Abdominal pain

Colon

Nil

SqCC

Miyazaki K [27]

2005

1

Abdominal pain

Appendix

CT showed right pelvic mass, but colonoscopy failure to find obstruction or mucosal abnormalities in the ileocecal region

Adenocarcinoma

John AK [28]

2004

1

Diarrhea

Colon

1. Pancolitis and hemorrhagic inflammation

Undifferentiated large cell carcinoma

2. Polypoidal lesions

  1. A-colon, ascending colon; D-colon, descending colon; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; SqCC, squamous cell carcinoma; T-colon, transverse colon.