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Pages 185-187 (May 1991)
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Vol. 27. Issue 4.
Pages 185-187 (May 1991)
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Mesotelioma pleural maligno y síndrome de Pancoast
Malignant pleural mesothelioma and Pancoast syndrome
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M. Llordés Llordés*, G. González Pont**
* Servicios de Medicina Interna, Hospital Mutua de Terrassa. Terrassa. Barcelona
** Servicios de Anatomía Patológica. Hospital Mutua de Terrassa. Terrassa. Barcelona
R. Rami Porta, M. Cuesta Palomero
Servicios de Cirugía Torácica, Hospital Mutua de Terrassa. Terrassa. Barcelona
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Una paciente de 77 años de edad, afecta de derrame pleural derecho, fue diagnosticada, mediante biopsia pleural tomada en el curso de una pleuroscopia, de mesotelioma epitelial maligno. Se le practicó pleurodesis química con clorhidrato de tetraciclina. No hubo recidiva del derrame hasta el fallecimiento de la enferma, cuatro meses después del diagnóstico.

A los dos meses del diagnóstico, la paciente presentó un síndrome típico de Pancoast, coincidiendo con un crecimiento de las masas pleurales a nivel apical derecho, claramente visible en la radiografía posteroanterior de tórax.

El síndrome de Pancoast suele aparecer asociado a un carcinoma de pulmón, frecuentemente de tipo escamoso, localizado en la zona apicoposterior del pulmón. Su aparición en el curso evolutivo de un mesotelioma pleural maligno es excepcional.

A malignant pleural mesothelioma was diagnosed in a 77 years old wornan by means of a pleural biopsy obtained during a pleuroscopy in the course of a right pleural effusion. Chemical pleurodesis with tetracycline hydrochioride was performed. Pleural effusion did not relapse until the patient died four months after the diagnosis was made. Two months after the diagnosis a typical Pancoast syndrome developed in association with growing of right apical pleural mass detectable at the posteroanterior chest radiograph.

Pancoast syndrome is frequently associated with pulmonary carcinoma specially of the squamous type localized at the pulmonary apicoposterior region. The ocurrence of this syndrome in cases of pleural mesoghelioma is extremely rare.

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