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Rapid fatal outcome from pulmonary arteries compression in transitional cell carcinoma
Ioannis A Voutsadakis1, George Masouris, Konstantinos Tsapakidis
1Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa 41110, Greece.
Abstract:
Transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder is a malignancy that metastasizes frequently to lymph nodes including the mediastinal lymph nodes. This occurrence may produce symptoms due to compression of adjacent structures such as the superior vena cava syndrome or dysphagia from esophageal compression. We report the case of a 59-year-old man with metastatic transitional cell carcinoma for whom mediastinal lymphadenopathy led to pulmonary artery compression and a rapidly fatal outcome. This rare occurrence has to be distinguished from pulmonary embolism, a much more frequent event in cancer patients, in order that proper and prompt treatment be initiated.
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