Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma

Spontaneous pneumothorax secondary to sunitinib, a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitor, is an extremely rare side effect of this class of medications. In this report, we present the case of a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who developed bilateral pneumot...

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Autores principales: Bukhari, Nedal, Al-Badr, Suha, AlNaimi, Manal, Azam, Faisal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923192
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9586
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author Bukhari, Nedal
Al-Badr, Suha
AlNaimi, Manal
Azam, Faisal
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Azam, Faisal
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description Spontaneous pneumothorax secondary to sunitinib, a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitor, is an extremely rare side effect of this class of medications. In this report, we present the case of a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who developed bilateral pneumothoraces after starting on sunitinib. This case report recognizes pneumothorax as a life-threatening side effect of sunitinib.
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spelling pubmed-74785532020-09-11 Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma Bukhari, Nedal Al-Badr, Suha AlNaimi, Manal Azam, Faisal Cureus Oncology Spontaneous pneumothorax secondary to sunitinib, a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitor, is an extremely rare side effect of this class of medications. In this report, we present the case of a patient with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who developed bilateral pneumothoraces after starting on sunitinib. This case report recognizes pneumothorax as a life-threatening side effect of sunitinib. Cureus 2020-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7478553/ /pubmed/32923192 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9586 Text en Copyright © 2020, Bukhari 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
Bukhari, Nedal
Al-Badr, Suha
AlNaimi, Manal
Azam, Faisal
Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title_full Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title_fullStr Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title_short Sunitinib: An Unusual Cause of Pneumothorax in a Patient With Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma
title_sort sunitinib: an unusual cause of pneumothorax in a patient with metastatic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923192
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9586
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