title: Progressive pulmonary infiltrates in a patient with ovarian cancer.
abstract: We present a case of organizing pneumonia associated with lymphangitic spread of ovarian carcinoma in a 60-year-old Hispanic female with progressive dyspnea, hypoxemia, and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. The patient was treated with corticosteroids, and she had rapid clinical and radiographic improvement. Malignancy-associated organizing pneumonia has most often been reported in bone-marrow transplant and breast-cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. Data regarding organizing pneumonia in association with other malignancies is quite limited.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine Service, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX 79920, USA.
authors.forename: Veeta M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Vaughn
authors.forename: Bret R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Haymore
authors.forename: Ines J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Rivera
authors.forename: Alexander S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Niven
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D018549:Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms; D011859:Radiography; D014481:United States