title: [Pleuropulmonary metastases of female cancers].
abstract: Pleuropulmonary metastasis occurs in 30 to 50% of all patients with cancer. Certain metastases occur specifically in females: breast and ovary cancer. There are six different clinical presentations of bronchopulmonary metastases: unique or multiple nodular images, mediastinal nodes, carcinomatous lymphangitis, bronchial metastasis, tumoral emboli, and metastatic bronchiolo-alveolar metastatic cancer. When the primary cancer is not known, a minimum number of investigations are needed: thyroid and pelvic ultrasound, mammography, colonscopy for certain cases, alfa-fetoprotein assay, neuron-specific enolase and beta HCG. Metastatic pleurisy accounts for 45% of all cases of pleurisy. In women, neoplastic pleural effusions result from breast cancer (37%), genitourinary tract cancer (20%), and lung cancer (15%).
authors.affiliation: Département de Pneumologie et Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires, CHU Bretonneau, Tours.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lemarié
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milleron
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D018997:Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human / Q000097:blood; D003113:Colonoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D008327:Mammography; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase / Q000097:blood; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018997:Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase