Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising from the Pleural Cavity After Pneumonectomy for Chronic Empyema

Malignant tumors associated with chronic empyema have been reported in the literature, and a majority of these tumors are lymphomas. Epithelial tumors originating from the post-pneumonectomy space in patients with chronic empyema are extremely rare. Here, we present the cases of 2 patients with squa...

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Autores principales: Jeon, Yeong Jeong, Shin, Sumin, Shim, Young Mog
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382273
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.2.123
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description Malignant tumors associated with chronic empyema have been reported in the literature, and a majority of these tumors are lymphomas. Epithelial tumors originating from the post-pneumonectomy space in patients with chronic empyema are extremely rare. Here, we present the cases of 2 patients with squamous cell carcinoma arising from the pleural cavity after pneumonectomy for chronic empyema.
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spelling pubmed-53802072017-04-05 Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising from the Pleural Cavity After Pneumonectomy for Chronic Empyema Jeon, Yeong Jeong Shin, Sumin Shim, Young Mog Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Malignant tumors associated with chronic empyema have been reported in the literature, and a majority of these tumors are lymphomas. Epithelial tumors originating from the post-pneumonectomy space in patients with chronic empyema are extremely rare. Here, we present the cases of 2 patients with squamous cell carcinoma arising from the pleural cavity after pneumonectomy for chronic empyema. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2017-04 2017-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5380207/ /pubmed/28382273 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2017.50.2.123 Text en Copyright © 2017 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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