Table 1

Incidence of cell type causing gastrointestinal (Antler et al.) or small/large bowel (McNeill et al.) metastases

Histologic cell type
Antler et al. 1982 [6]: 58 gastrointesinal metastasis out of 423 cases
McNeill et al. 1987 [7]: 46 small/large bowel metastasis out of 431 cases

Squamous cell
19 out of 173 (11%)
15/5 out of 199 (10%)
Adenocarcinoma
6 out of 72 (8%)
13/6 out of 108 (18%)
Large cell
17 out of 87 (20%)
12/6 out of 31 (58%)
Small Cell
11 out of 48 (23%)
6/5 out of 73 (15%)
Others
5 out of 43 (11%)
0/2 out of 20 (10%)

Hillenbrand et al. International Seminars in Surgical Oncology 2005 2:13   doi:10.1186/1477-7800-2-13