Progressive pulmonary infiltrates in a patient with ovarian cancer

Respir Care. 2006 May;51(5):515-8.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Comorbidity
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnosis
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / physiopathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Middle Aged
  • Ovarian Neoplasms*
  • Radiography
  • United States