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Palliative care patient.
Patient Data
Age: 65 years
Gender: Male
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Cannonball metastases
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Multiple large well defined masses in both lungs, measuring upto 7 cm.
No cavitation.
Case Discussion
Cannonball metastases is a description given to a select type of lung metastases in which multiple large masses are evident.
Renal cell carcinoma is by far the commonest cause with choriocarcinoma, and endometrial carcinoma being less common primaries.