The lung metastases are usually detected during follow-up examinations without the patients showing any type of symptoms. In chest x-ray the lung metastases are seen as round nodular structures in the lungs. They can grow within the bronchus or spread to lymph nodes with the thoracic cavity.
Pain in the chest can suggest of tumorous infiltration of the chest wall which can reach up to the ribs.

Symptoms of advanced stage are:

• Coughing up of blood
• Bronchitis
• Increasing breathlessness
• Pain in the chest and loss of weight

 

Document Date: 2007/09/24   Author: Ahmed Koujan

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