Simultaneous bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax observed during the administration of gefitinib for lung adenocarcinoma with multiple lung metastases

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 862-864

  Mori, Masahide ^a   Nakagawa, Masaru ^a   Fujikawa, Takeya ^a   Iwasaki, Takeo ^a   Kawamura, Tomoko ^a   Namba, Yoshinobu ^a   Niinaka, Manabu ^a   Takeda, Yoshito ^a   Kimura, Hiromi ^a   Naka, Nobuyuki ^a   Okada, Tatsuya ^a   Yamaguchi, Toshihiko ^a   Yokota, Soichiro ^a   Ito, Masami ^a  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gefitinib; Lung cancer; Lung metastases; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; QUINAZOLINES;

EID: 24644438736     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.862     Document Type: Article

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