Inappropriate ADH secretion caused by oat cell carcinoma and relieved by lung resection.

Abstract

In this case report we describe a patient with an early oat cell carcinoma and inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion, whose symptoms were cured by resecting the tumour. The follow-up period is four and a half years. Another unusual feature, the presence of thrombocytopaenia, was greatly improved by the lung resection.