Evolución fulminante de un adenocarcinoma pulmonar con linfangitis carcinomatosa

Abstract

The way in which lung cancer presents itself is related to the location of the tumour and its local and systemic complications. Aggressive forms of presentations have been described in young patients, although fulminating presentation is not usual. We present the case of a patient who in the space of one week went form being asymptomatic to dying from the spread of lung cancer.

This case is exceptional for several reasons: a) the abrupt presentation without previous symptoms or constitutional syndrome; b) the fulminating evolution towards the respiratory failure and death of the patient and c) the unusual initial presentation of the cancer with carcinomatosis lymphangitis.