title: [Pulmonary complications in chemotherapy].
abstract: Many chemotherapeutic agents have a direct or indirect toxic effect on the lungs and airways which can lead to potentially fatal complications. It is a diagnostic challenge to identify such changes by imaging early as they are often unspecific and can be misinterpreted as pulmonary edema, infections, radiation pneumonitis or progression of an underlying disease. In this review the morphological changes of the lungs and airways are summarized according to anatomical location and some of the most commonly used chemotherapeutic agents and their adverse effects are listed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie, Universitätsspital Zürich, Rämistr. 100, CH-8091, Zürich, Schweiz.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Frauenfelder
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents