{"title":"Spontaneous pneumothorax following chemotherapy for malignant thymoma with pulmonary metastasis: report of a case.","authors":"T C Liu, S F Lin, H W Liu, T P Chen","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spontaneous pneumothorax is a rare complication in both primary and metastatic pulmonary neoplasms. Occasionally, pneumothorax is associated with chemotherapy of pulmonary malignancies. Pneumothorax after chemotherapy has been reported only in cases with osteogenic sarcoma, synovial sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, germinal tumors, and lymphoma with lung metastasis. We report a case of a patient with malignant thymoma who suffered from lung metastasis after radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy from lung metastasis after radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, and cis-platinum). A chest X-ray taken 2 days after chemotherapy showed bilateral pneumothorax, which was resolved with conservative treatment. The pneumothorax in this patient is believed to have been caused by the rupturing of the tumor into the pleural cavity and the bronchi.</p>","PeriodicalId":22189,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan yi xue hui za zhi. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Taiwan yi xue hui za zhi. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spontaneous pneumothorax is a rare complication in both primary and metastatic pulmonary neoplasms. Occasionally, pneumothorax is associated with chemotherapy of pulmonary malignancies. Pneumothorax after chemotherapy has been reported only in cases with osteogenic sarcoma, synovial sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, germinal tumors, and lymphoma with lung metastasis. We report a case of a patient with malignant thymoma who suffered from lung metastasis after radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy from lung metastasis after radiation and adjuvant chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, and cis-platinum). A chest X-ray taken 2 days after chemotherapy showed bilateral pneumothorax, which was resolved with conservative treatment. The pneumothorax in this patient is believed to have been caused by the rupturing of the tumor into the pleural cavity and the bronchi.
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