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9 November 2015

Pulmonary Lesions in the Course of Gastric Cancer—Two Cases of Bard’s Syndrome

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Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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Chair and Institute of Medical Radiology and Radiodiagnostics of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Laboratory of Imaging Diagnostics, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Zabrze, Poland
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Abstract

The Bard’s syndrome is a medical condition related to miliary dissemination of gastric cancer to the lungs. Difficulties in diagnosis are associated with the need of differentiation between numerous diseases, which may manifest as disseminated lesions in the lung parenchyma on chest radiograph. Despite the advanced proliferative process, primary focus of neoplasm frequently remains subclinical. Metastatic lesions cause many symptoms in the respiratory system, suggesting primary pulmonary pathology. The Bard’s syndrome should be always taken into account in differential diagnosis of disseminated lesions, particularly due to prevalence of gastric cancer. The study presents two cases of patients with disseminated pulmonary lesions, corresponding to gastric cancer metastases on radiological imaging.

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