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Carcinoma arising in the pleural cavity following pneumonectomy for hydatid disease
J Zapatero Gaviria1, C E Garcia Franco, L Jimenez Hiscock
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. zapatero89@hotmail.com
Abstract:
We report a case of carcinoma following 42 years of chronic empyema in a patient who underwent surgery for a hydatid cyst at the age of 3. At the time of diagnosis, an esophageal fistula was observed and treated with cyanoacrylate. We hypothesize that chronic inflammation of the pleura, caused by decades of empyema, associated with the presence of heterotopic squamous epithelium due to a long-standing esophago-pleural fistula, led to neoplastic transformation.
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