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Abstract
Case Report
A case of nonsmall cell lung cancer with Collet-Sicard syndrome
Chikako Kudo-Tsurushige Hideaki Yamakawa Saburo Ito Akira Kojima
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Jikei University Aoto Hospital
ABSTRACT
We report a rare case of lung carcinoma exhibiting Collet-Sicard syndrome resulting from skull base metastasis. A 73-year-old man revealed an abnormal shadow on his chest radiography. He came to our hospital suffering from dysphasia, dysarthria, and headache on his left side. Examinations showed that he had nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (low differentiated carcinoma) cT3N3M1b. However, his cranial nerve symptoms were still unknown. Several detailed radiographic examinations revealed that his cranial nerve symptoms were Collet-Sicard syndrome because of the skull base metastasis from lung cancer. He received chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It is a rare case of Collet-Sicard syndrome resulting from a skull-base metastasis of nonsmall cell lung cancer and is important as a differential diagnosis of prior cranial nerve symptoms.
KEYWORDS
Lung cancer Collet-Sicard syndrome Cranial neuropathy Skull base metastasis
Received 28 Oct 2011 ／ Accepted 7 Feb 2012
AJRS, 1(5): 414-417, 2012
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