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Testicular choriocarcinoma revealed by a localized pulmonary edema: a case report
D Karila-Cohen1, H Mentec, G Bleichner
1Service de Reanimation Polyvalente et Urgences, Centre Hospitalier Victor Dupouy, Cedex, France.
Intensive Care Medicine
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report the case of a young man hospitalized because of an acute pulmonary embolism presenting as a focal pulmonary edema, without evidence of left ventricular failure. This pulmonary embolism was caused by a testicular choriocarcinoma that entailed both a neoplastic venous involvement with pulmonary neoplastic embolism, and a compression of inferior vena cava with thrombosis and subsequent pulmonary thromboembolism. This case combines two unusual associations: (i) Pulmonary embolism causing a localized pulmonary edema, (ii) Neoplastic pulmonary embolism of a testicular choriocarcinoma.