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Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity

A 56-years-old woman was referred to our unit for partially treated acromegaly. She had a high level of insulin growth factor. She did not complain of any pulmonary symptoms and was a non-smoker. Physical examination revealed clinical features of acromegaly. She had a 13 mm pituitary adenoma and was...

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Autores principales: El Aziz, Siham, Chadli, Asma, Obbiba, Atika, El Ghomari, Hassan, Farouqi, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22891085
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author El Aziz, Siham
Chadli, Asma
Obbiba, Atika
El Ghomari, Hassan
Farouqi, Ahmed
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description A 56-years-old woman was referred to our unit for partially treated acromegaly. She had a high level of insulin growth factor. She did not complain of any pulmonary symptoms and was a non-smoker. Physical examination revealed clinical features of acromegaly. She had a 13 mm pituitary adenoma and was proposed for surgical intervention. Her chest X-ray showed a right paracardiac tumor. Computed tomography scan revealed a large right-sided fowler tumor. Pituitary surgery was cancelled and lobectomy after biopsy with lymph nodes excision was performed through thoracotomy. Histological study of the tumor revealed a medium differentiated epidermoid carcinoma with positive lymph nodes and extension to pleura. She was referred to chemotherapy protocol. Association between carcinoma and acromegaly has previously been reported. Most common tumors are colorectal and thyroid neoplasia. As we see in this case report, we need to consider other carcinomas in acromegalic patients like pulmonary carcinoma, despite their rarity in women.
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spelling pubmed-34150482012-08-13 Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity El Aziz, Siham Chadli, Asma Obbiba, Atika El Ghomari, Hassan Farouqi, Ahmed Pan Afr Med J Case Report A 56-years-old woman was referred to our unit for partially treated acromegaly. She had a high level of insulin growth factor. She did not complain of any pulmonary symptoms and was a non-smoker. Physical examination revealed clinical features of acromegaly. She had a 13 mm pituitary adenoma and was proposed for surgical intervention. Her chest X-ray showed a right paracardiac tumor. Computed tomography scan revealed a large right-sided fowler tumor. Pituitary surgery was cancelled and lobectomy after biopsy with lymph nodes excision was performed through thoracotomy. Histological study of the tumor revealed a medium differentiated epidermoid carcinoma with positive lymph nodes and extension to pleura. She was referred to chemotherapy protocol. Association between carcinoma and acromegaly has previously been reported. Most common tumors are colorectal and thyroid neoplasia. As we see in this case report, we need to consider other carcinomas in acromegalic patients like pulmonary carcinoma, despite their rarity in women. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3415048/ /pubmed/22891085 Text en © Siham El Aziz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title_full Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title_fullStr Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title_short Pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
title_sort pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma in a patient with acromegaly: a rare entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22891085
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