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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor in a young male
Jyoti Bajpai1, Ayush Jain2, Surya Kant1, Akshyaya Pradhan3, Darshan Kumar Bajaj1
1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Interventional Pulmonology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Cardiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Prof. Surya Kant
Department of Respiratory Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jmedsci.jmedsci_162_19
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Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor is a subtype of lung cancer, which does not have favorable outcome. The small-cell and large-cell variants of this cancer comprise 20% of all lung cancers. However, large-cell neuroendocrine tumor (LCNET) is not frequent and seen in about less than 3% of cases of lung cancer. Here, we describe a young nonsmoker male with the unholy triad of LCNET, newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus, and skin metastasis.
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