Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Talc pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion. We present a case of an asymptomatic hepatic laceration that occurred during pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient and led to hepatic tumor dissemination. DISCUSSION: Pleurodesis is a relatively safe procedure, a...

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Autores principales: Bosch-Barrera, Joaquim, Espinós, Jaime
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-3-6
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Espinós, Jaime
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description BACKGROUND: Talc pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion. We present a case of an asymptomatic hepatic laceration that occurred during pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient and led to hepatic tumor dissemination. DISCUSSION: Pleurodesis is a relatively safe procedure, although previous studies have described malignant invasion of scar tissue. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first case report of tumor spread due to a liver puncture during talc pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient.
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spelling pubmed-28770162010-05-27 Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report Bosch-Barrera, Joaquim Espinós, Jaime Int Arch Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Talc pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion. We present a case of an asymptomatic hepatic laceration that occurred during pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient and led to hepatic tumor dissemination. DISCUSSION: Pleurodesis is a relatively safe procedure, although previous studies have described malignant invasion of scar tissue. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first case report of tumor spread due to a liver puncture during talc pleurodesis in a breast cancer patient. BioMed Central 2010-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2877016/ /pubmed/20459628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-3-6 Text en Copyright ©2010 Bosch-Barrera and Espinós; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Espinós, Jaime
Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title_full Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title_fullStr Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title_short Hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
title_sort hepatic breast cancer dissemination after an iatrogenic hepatic laceration during talc pleurodesis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-3-6
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