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Revista Cubana de Medicina
On-line version ISSN 1561-302X
Abstract
SENRA ARMAS, Luis et al. Spread cancer and lengthy survival.: With regard to a case. Rev cubana med [online]. 2009, vol.48, n.3, pp. 119-124. ISSN 1561-302X.
The case of a female patient aged 47 was notified, which deceased 12 years after detection of multiple pulmonary metastases from a tumor with a low grade malignancy probably of metastatic origin with a relatively painless clinical course and spontaneous evolution. It was possible to determine the tumor neuroendocrine lineage by its appearance during the past year of multiple hepatic lesions. During the disease course it was not possible to identify the primary tumor.
Keywords : Neuroendocrine tumor; non-identified primary cancer; broad survival.