Role of surgical intervention in managing gastrointestinal metastases from lung cancer

Table 1 Clinical and pathological features of patients with gastrointestinal metastases

Patient number	Age (yr) /sex	Histology	Initial pTNM staging	Time period (mo) from diagnosis of lung tumor to major GI metastasis	Clinical presentation	Diagnostic procedure	Other extra-thoracic metastatic sites	Surgery	Survival
1	58/F	Adenocarcinoma	IV	1/stomach	Abdominal pain	PES	Brain, bone, liver, adrenal gland	Nil	115 mo
2	79/M	Pleomorphic carcinoma	IV	Simultaneous/stomach	Hemorrhage	PES	Bone, liver, gall bladder	Nil	1 mo
3	81/M	Adenocarcinoma	IV	5/stomach	Hemorrhage	PES	Bone	Nil	1 mo
4	73/M	Adenocarcinoma	IIIb	5/stomach	Hemorrhage	PES	Brain	Nil	1 mo
5	71/M	Squamous cell carcinoma	Ib	9/stomach	Hemorrhage	PES, CT	Spleen, liver	Proximal gastrectomy	16 d
6	59/M	Adenocarcinoma	IV	17/stomach	Hemorrhage	PES	Bone, liver	Nil	2 mo
7	71/M	Squamous cell carcinoma	IIIa	108/stomach and duodenum	Hemorrhage	Laparotomy	Liver	Wedge resection of stomach	15 d
8	70/M	Small cell carcinoma	IIIb	7/stomach and duodenum	Abdominal pain hemorrhage	PES	Bone, pancreas	Nil	3 mo
9	66/M	Adenocarcinoma	IV	Simultaneous/duodenum	Hemorrhage	PES	Adrenal gland	Nil	1 mo
10	72/M	Undifferentiated	IV	Simultaneous/small bowel	Bowel obstruction	CT	Brain	Segmental resection	1 mo
11	63/M	Adenocarcinoma	IIIb	3/small bowel	Perforation	Laparotomy	Peritoneal seeding	Primary repair	3 d
12	47/M	Adenocarcinoma	IV	2/small bowel	Bowel obstruction	Laparotomy	Nil	Segmental resection	2 mo
13	66/M	Adenosquamous carcinoma	IV	3/small bowel	Bowel obstruction	Echo	Brain	Segmental resection	3 mo
14	73/M	Adenocarcinoma	IV	14/small bowel	Perforation	Laparotomy	Liver	Segmental resection	1 d
15	71/M	Squamous cell carcinoma	IIIb	2/small bowel	Perforation	Laparotomy	Peritoneal seeding	Segmental resection	3 mo
16	61/F	Adenocarcinoma	IIIb	52/colon	Abdominal pain	CT	Nil	Right hemicolectomy	8 mo
17	66/M	Squamous cell carcinoma	IV	4/colon	Hemorrhage	Colonoscopy	Liver, brain	Right hemicolectomy	5 mo
18	54/F	Adenocarcinoma	IIIb	32/colon	Ileus	CT, Colonoscopy	Bone, brain	Right hemicolectomy	4 mo
19	40/F	Adenocarcinoma	IV	1/multiple GI involvement	Ileus, Hemorrhage	PES, CT	Ovary, adrenal gland, pancreas	Nil	3 mo
20	69/M	Squamous cell carcinoma	IV	Simultaneous/multiple GI involvement	Hemorrhage	PES, CT	Bone	Nil	2 mo
21	80/F	Adenocarcinoma	IV	Simultaneous/multiple GI involvement	Tenesmus	CT	Ovary, uterus	Nil	3 mo

¹Patient still alive. M: Male; F: Female; pTNM: Pathological tumor-lymph node-metastasis; GI: Gastrointestinal; PES: Panendoscopy; CT: Computed tomography.