Pulmonary Cavitation Following Expectoration of Neoplastic Tissue

Dolgoff, Sidney; Hansen, Robert H.

doi:10.1093/ajcp/20.10.974

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“…Although tumor tissue expectoration is shown to relieve dyspnea and forceful coughing in most cases, there may be a few complications on rare occasions. Dolgoff and Hansen [11] showed the development of pulmonary cavitation on chest radiograph following expectoration of fragments of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. Daryanani et al [12] observed spontaneous unilateral hydro-pneumothorax following an episode of hemoptysis with tumor tissue expectoration in metastatic renal cell carcinoma that required a chest tube and subsequent pleurodesis.…”

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Spontaneous expectoration of tumor tissue in primary adenocarcinoma lung

et al. 2021

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Spontaneous expectoration of the tissue fragments in primary lung carcinoma is an extremely unusual event. Expectoration of tumor fragments is a significant event that should not be ignored as it serves itself as a noninvasive tool to diagnose underlying malignancy if such samples are immediately preserved and subjected to histopathological examination. More so, expectoration of a large-sized fragment may provide substantial relief from the breathlessness. Reported here is the case of a middle-aged male patient with adenocarcinoma in the right lung, and mass extended up to trachea, who spontaneously coughed out pieces of tumor tissue.

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