A Case Report of an Unusual Cause of Dysphagia from Enlarged Subcarinal Lymph Node.

ABSTRACT

Cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, and weight loss are classic symptoms of bronchial carcinoma. Small cell lung cancer presents late with obviously abnormal chest radiographs and with bulky, usually mediastinal lymph node involvement. Dysphagia rarely occurs in patients with bronchial carcinoma. There are many causes of dysphagia in bronchial carcinoma such as mediastinal lymphadenopathy, direct tumor invasion of the mediastinum, radiotherapy, secondary achalasia. This report presents a case of progressive dysphagia to solid foods and weight loss of a 28-year-old male, non-smoker due to subcarinal lymph node enlargement from metastatic bronchial adenocarcinoma.