Chemotherapy-induced bowel obstruction in small cell lung cancer: a case report.

This case report focuses on an elderly gentleman with extensive stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who experienced episodes of bowel obstruction shortly after commencing first-line chemotherapy with cisplatin and etoposide. The patient had no radiological or pathological evidence of intra-abdominal carcinomatosis or paraneoplastic bowel disease secondary to SCLC. Although neurotoxicity is commonly associated with platinum agents, the effect is predominantly peripheral as opposed to autonomic.