Neumonía en organización por radiación en el paciente con cáncer de mama: Caso clínico

• Arturo Morales Soto ^[1] ; Carlos Calvo De La Barra ^[1] ; Graça Pinheiro De Carvalho ^[1] ; Sergio González Bombardiere ^[1] ; Fernando Saldías Peñafiel ^[1]
  1. [1] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 141, Nº. 5, 2013, págs. 664-668
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Radiation organizing pneumonia: Report of one case
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  • We report a 64 years-old woman who underwent sparing mastectomy with adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. One month after the end of radiotherapy, she presented with malaise, fever, fatigue, cough and migratory bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on serial radiological images. The microbiological studies of broncha alveolar lavage were negative. The patient under went a trans bronchial biopsy and the pathological diagnosis was compatible with an organizing pneumonia presumably associated with radiotherapy. Systemic steroid treatment was successful with rapid and complete resolution ofclinical and radiographic manifestations.