Chylothorax, chylopericardium and lymphoedema - The presenting features of signet-ring cell carcinoma

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1489-1491

  Mogulkoc, N ^a,b   Onal B ^a   Okyay, N ^a   Gunel O ^a   Bayindir, U ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Chylopericardium; Chylothorax; Lymphoedema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHYLOPERICARDIUM; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELEPHANTIASIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHEDEMA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION;

EID: 0345104437     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3003.1999.13f39.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Merrigan BA, Winter DC, O'Sullivan GC. Chylothorax. Br J Surg 1997; 84: 15-20.
2. Miller JI Jr. Diagnosis and management of chylothorax. Chest Surg Clin N Am 1996; 6: 139-148.
3. Browse NL, Allen DR, Wilson NM. Management of chylothorax. Br J Surg 1997; 84: 1711-1716.
4. Ramzy IA, Rodriguez A, Cowley RA. Pitfalls in the management of traumatic chylothorax. J Trauma 1982; 22: 513-551.
5. Bresser P, Kromhout JG, Reekers JA, Verhage TL. Chylous pleural effusion associated with primary lymphedema and lymphangioma-like malformations. Chest 1993; 103: 1916-1918.
6. Stirling CM, Boulton-Jones JM, Simpson K. Progressive oedema in a 30-year old. Lancet 1998; 352: 450.
7. Oak SN, Kulkami BK, Deshmukh H, Kamble M, Borwankar SS. Chylothorax: a conservative approach (a case report). J Postgrad Med 1991; 37: 223-224.
8. Kitchen ND, Hocken DB, Greenhalgh RM, Kaplan DK. Use of the Denver pleuroperitoneal shunt in the treatment of chylothorax secondary to filariasis. Thorax 1991; 46: 144-145.
9. Brownstein MH, Helwig EB. Metastatic tumors of the skin. Cancer 1972; 29: 1298-1307.
10. Feuerman EJ, Nir MA, Lurie M. Delayed cutaneous metastases of mucus producing cell carcinoma of the stomach. Dermatologica 1973; 146: 15-20.
11. Alonso-Llamazares J, De Pablo P, Ballestin C, Guerra A, Iglesias L. Cutaneous metastasis from a presumed signet-ring cell carcinoma in a 10-year-old child. Br J Dermatol 1998; 138: 145-149.
12. Miyashita M, Honjo M, Suzuki H, et al. A case of cutaneous metastases of gastric carcinoma showing peculiar clinical features. J Dermatol 1991; 18: 619-623.
13. Vidmar D, Baxter DL Jr, Devaney K. Extensive dermal metastases from primary signet-ring carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Cutis 1992; 49: 324-328.
14. Heidenheim M, Hansen U, Andersen J. Elephantiasis-like cutaneous metastases from signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach. Cutis 1989; 44: 451-454.