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Pages 116-118 (April 1992)
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Vol. 28. Issue 3.
Pages 116-118 (April 1992)
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Metaplasia escamosa y carcinoma epidermoide de la pleura. A propósito de un caso
Squamous metaplasia and epidermoid pleural carcinoma. A case report
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S. Montalbán, P. Berlinches, L. Pérez-Mila
Servicios de Anatomía Patológica, Medicina Interna y Radiología. Hospital Sta. María de Rosell de Cartagena.
F.A. Pastor*, G. Ortuño*
* Cátedra de Anatomía Patológica. Facultad de Medicina de Murcia
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Presentamos un caso de carcinoma epidermoide de pleura en un varón de 68 años de edad, antiguo tuberculoso, con empiema de larga evolución.

El carcinoma epidermoide de pleura es raro. Los pocos casos descritos hasta ahora en la literatura, lo han sido en pacientes tuberculosos sometidos a neumotorax extrapleural que desarrollaron fístulas pleuro-cutáneas, o bien en los casos sin fístula que fueron sometidos a punciones pleurales múltiples de evacuación o relleno.

En nuestro paciente, ninguna de estas dos circunstancias estuvo presente, lo que nos permite afirmar que la metaplasia escamosa previa del mesotelio pleural en nuestro caso, es el único factor etiológico posible en la génesis de este tipo de carcinoma.

We report the case of a 68 years old male patient with previous history of pulmonar) tuberculosis who presented a pleural epidermoid carcinoma with long lasting empyema. Pleural epidermoid carcinoma is rare. The few cases reported until present showed that most of patients had pulmonary tuberculosis treated with extrapleural pneumothorax who developed pleurocutaneous fistulae, or patients without fistulae subjected to multiple thoracocentesis for drainage or filling. In our patient none of these two circumstances was present. This allows us to state that previous squamous metaplasia of pleural mesothelium is, in our case, the only possible etiologic factor for the genesis of this type of carcinoma.

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