Neumonía en organización por radiación en el paciente con cáncer de mama: Caso clínico / Radiation organizing pneumonia: Report of one case
Rev. méd. Chile
; 141(5): 664-668, mayo 2013. ilus
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ABSTRACT
We report a 64 years-old woman who underwent sparing mastectomy with adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. One month after the end of radiotherapy, she presented with malaise, fever, fatigue, cough and migratory bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on serial radiological images. The microbiological studies of broncha alveolar lavage were negative. The patient under went a trans bronchial biopsy and the pathological diagnosis was compatible with an organizing pneumonia presumably associated with radiotherapy. Systemic steroid treatment was successful with rapid and complete resolution ofclinical and radiographic manifestations.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Radiation Pneumonitis
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Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
Es
Journal:
Rev. méd. Chile
Journal subject:
MEDICINA
Year:
2013
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Chile
Country of publication:
Chile