Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report

Pulmonary metastases are a rare but aggressive and life-threatening complication of leiomyosarcoma. We discuss a case of a 48-year-old woman with stage 4b leiomyosarcoma who presented with dyspnea and hemodynamic instability secondary to a large lung metastasis with massive pleural effusion. This pa...

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Autores principales: Bridwell, Rachel E, Yoo, Michael J, Oliver, Joshua J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31612100
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5372
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description Pulmonary metastases are a rare but aggressive and life-threatening complication of leiomyosarcoma. We discuss a case of a 48-year-old woman with stage 4b leiomyosarcoma who presented with dyspnea and hemodynamic instability secondary to a large lung metastasis with massive pleural effusion. This particular subset of patients is vulnerable to re-expansion pulmonary edema in a disease with poor survival rates.
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spelling pubmed-67849152019-10-14 Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report Bridwell, Rachel E Yoo, Michael J Oliver, Joshua J Cureus Oncology Pulmonary metastases are a rare but aggressive and life-threatening complication of leiomyosarcoma. We discuss a case of a 48-year-old woman with stage 4b leiomyosarcoma who presented with dyspnea and hemodynamic instability secondary to a large lung metastasis with massive pleural effusion. This particular subset of patients is vulnerable to re-expansion pulmonary edema in a disease with poor survival rates. Cureus 2019-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6784915/ /pubmed/31612100 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5372 Text en Copyright © 2019, Bridwell 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.
spellingShingle Oncology
Bridwell, Rachel E
Yoo, Michael J
Oliver, Joshua J
Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title_full Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title_short Pleural Effusion with Mediastinal and Hemidiaphragm Mass Effect: A Case Report
title_sort pleural effusion with mediastinal and hemidiaphragm mass effect: a case report
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31612100
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5372
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