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SUBMITTER: Miyashita Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7322342 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miyashita Yoshihiro Y Hanawa Kotaro K Kobayashi Hiroaki H Kumagai Takashi T Inomata Kie K Tsutsui Toshiharu T Kakizaki Yumiko Y Oyama Toshio T
Respiratory medicine case reports 20200617
A 60-year-old man with a history of smoking was transferred to our hospital for consciousness disorder. A diagnosis of <i>ALK-</i>rearranged lung adenocarcinoma associated with a paraneoplastic electrolytic disorder was made following a cutaneous needle biopsy. Both the primary lung lesion and multiple metastases shrunk and his electrolytic disorder resolved after the introduction of a first-line molecular-targeted drug chemotherapy with crizotinib. We herein report a case of <i>ALK</i>-rearrang ...[more]