Sandbox/WCT 1
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Symptoms Related to Tumor Growth in the Thorax
- Cough (most common symptom)[1]
- Wheezing[1]
- Dyspnea[1]
- Hemoptysis[1]
- Chest pain[1]
Symptoms Related to the Distant Spread of the Tumor
- Hoarseness (involvement of the recurrent laryngeal nerve)
- Dyspnea (one of the causes is the involvement of the phrenic nerve and subsequent elevation of the hemi-diaphragm)
- Pain, muscle wasting, or change in the skin temperature in areas corresponding to C8, T2 to T4 (involvement of the brachial plexus)
- Chest pain (one of the causes is the involvement of the chest wall)
- Pleuritic chest pain
- Horner syndrome manifested by unilateral miosis, ptosis and anhydrosis (involvement of the sympathetic trunk)
- Arrhythmia (involvement of the pericardium)
- Cardiac tamponade (involvement of the pericardium)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 van Meerbeeck JP, Fennell DA, De Ruysscher DK (2011). "Small-cell lung cancer". Lancet. 378 (9804): 1741–55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60165-7. PMID 21565397.