[Successful treatment of hemopneumothorax with intrapleural OK432 in pulmonary metastases of cutaneous angiosarcoma].
An 80-year-old woman with angiosarcoma of the scalp was treated with radiation and interleukin 2. The patient experienced dyspnea one month later because of pulmonary metastases, and underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for a right pneumothorax. Right hemopneumothorax recurred 3 weeks after the surgery and left hemopneumothorax occurred 4 months later. Both were successfully treated with intrapleural OK432 and drainage. As of March 1995 the patient had been alive and well for one year since the right pneumothorax developed.
Takizawa
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Thoracic Surgery of Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Japan.
Koike
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Akamatsu
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D006468:Hemopneumothorax / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D010844:Picibanil / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010994:Pleura; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D010844:Picibanil