bilateral pneumothorax associated with lung and pleural metastases of breast cancer双边气胸肺和胸膜转移的乳腺癌.pdfVIP

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy, Vol. 7, pp. 69-73 (C) 2001 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. Reprints available directly from the publisher Published by license under Photocopying permitted by license only the Harwood Academic Publishers imprint, part of Gordon and Breach Publishing, member of the Taylor Francis Group. Bilateral Pneumothorax Associated with Lung and Pleural Metastases of Breast Cancer: Report of a Case TERUMASA KURIHARAa’*, OSAMU KAWASHIMAa, KEIICHI ENDOa, YUICHI IINOb, SUSUMU ISHIKAWA and YASUO MORISHITA aDepartment of Surgery, National Nishi-gunma Hospital, 2854 Kanai, Shibukawa, Gunma 377-8511, Japan, bDepartment ofEmergency and Critical Care Medicine; CSecond Department of Surgery, Gunma University School ofMedicine, 3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan (Received 10 October 2000; In final form 29 November 2000) A rare case ofbilateral pneumothorax in a 54-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer associated with lung and pleural metastases is presented. The patient was admitted to our hospital complaining of unexpected severe dyspnea. A chest X-ray showed bilateral pneu- mothorax associated with multiple lung metastases and pleural effusions, followed by immediate pleural drainage. Although air leak and effusions of the right lung were well controlled by the conserva