CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG WITH MARKED HYPERAMYLASEMIA AND ELEVATED SERUM CALCITONIN

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 77  (1) , 43-44
Abstract
Ectopic production of multiple peptide hormones is a frequent concomitant of neoplasia. An elderly man with metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung presented with back pain, a right hilar mass and markedly elevated serum calcitonin and amylase levels. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed a striking elevation of a salivary type isoamylase. This case was an unusual association of production of a peptide hormone and a nonhormonal peptide in a patient with a tumor of neural crest origin.

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