Progressive pulmonary infiltrates in a patient with ovarian cancer.
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.
Vaughn
Veeta M
VM
Internal Medicine Service, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX 79920, USA.
Haymore
Bret R
BR
Sanchez-Rivera
Ines J
IJ
Niven
Alexander S
AS
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