Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma

The lungs are a common site of metastatic spread of an osteosarcoma. An affiliated simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (SBSP) is a rare clinical sequela of this malignancy. In this case report, we present the clinical circumstances of a young teenager who presented to our clinical settin...

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Autores principales: Tariq, Usman, Sohail, Muhammad Saad, Fatima, Zainab, Khan, Amina, Sheikh, Abu Baker, Bhatti, Shimron I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30087821
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2745
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author Tariq, Usman
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Fatima, Zainab
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Sheikh, Abu Baker
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description The lungs are a common site of metastatic spread of an osteosarcoma. An affiliated simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (SBSP) is a rare clinical sequela of this malignancy. In this case report, we present the clinical circumstances of a young teenager who presented to our clinical setting following a diagnosis of osteosarcoma. We also illustrate the postulated pathophysiology, the tools for diagnosis and a subsequent management for this rare clinical entity.
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spelling pubmed-60756402018-08-07 Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma Tariq, Usman Sohail, Muhammad Saad Fatima, Zainab Khan, Amina Sheikh, Abu Baker Bhatti, Shimron I Cureus Oncology The lungs are a common site of metastatic spread of an osteosarcoma. An affiliated simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax (SBSP) is a rare clinical sequela of this malignancy. In this case report, we present the clinical circumstances of a young teenager who presented to our clinical setting following a diagnosis of osteosarcoma. We also illustrate the postulated pathophysiology, the tools for diagnosis and a subsequent management for this rare clinical entity. Cureus 2018-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6075640/ /pubmed/30087821 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2745 Text en Copyright © 2018, Tariq et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Tariq, Usman
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Fatima, Zainab
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Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title_full Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title_fullStr Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title_short Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Osteosarcoma
title_sort simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax: a rare complication of osteosarcoma
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075640/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2745
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