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Pneumothorax as a complication of tumour response to chemotherapy
M D Leslie1, M Napier, M G Glaser
1Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
Clinical Oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A patient with extensive pulmonary involvement by disseminated adenocarcinoma is presented. Response to chemotherapy resulted in the direct rupture of necrotic tumour tissue into the pleural cavity leading to a pneumothorax. The condition failed to improve with chest drainage and suction, necessitating surgical intervention. The development of the pneumothorax proved to be a fatal complication of treatment.