Metastatic lung cancer presenting as thoracic empyema. A Case report

Increased cancer risk in patients with inflammatory and infectious diseases has been reported in many studies and lung cancer‐associated empyema in <0.3% patients. We present a patient with empyema in whom the final diagnosis was metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Purulent pleural fluid obtained by...

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Autores principales: Leporati, Andrea, Raveglia, Federico, Cioffi, Ugo, De Simone, Matilde, Ghelma, Filippo, Baisi, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32185041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2566
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author Leporati, Andrea
Raveglia, Federico
Cioffi, Ugo
De Simone, Matilde
Ghelma, Filippo
Baisi, Alessandro
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description Increased cancer risk in patients with inflammatory and infectious diseases has been reported in many studies and lung cancer‐associated empyema in <0.3% patients. We present a patient with empyema in whom the final diagnosis was metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Purulent pleural fluid obtained by drainage or thoracentesis must always been examined because the association of malignant tumors and empyema should be taken into consideration.
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spelling pubmed-70698622020-03-17 Metastatic lung cancer presenting as thoracic empyema. A Case report Leporati, Andrea Raveglia, Federico Cioffi, Ugo De Simone, Matilde Ghelma, Filippo Baisi, Alessandro Clin Case Rep Case Reports Increased cancer risk in patients with inflammatory and infectious diseases has been reported in many studies and lung cancer‐associated empyema in <0.3% patients. We present a patient with empyema in whom the final diagnosis was metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Purulent pleural fluid obtained by drainage or thoracentesis must always been examined because the association of malignant tumors and empyema should be taken into consideration. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7069862/ /pubmed/32185041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2566 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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