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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tasis, Nikolaos
• Tsouknidas, Ioannis
• Ioannidis, Argyrios
• Nassiopoulos, Konstantinos
• Filippou, Dimitrios

Titel

Left Functional Pneumonectomy Caused by a Very Rare Giant Intrathoracic Cystic Lesion in a Patient with Gorham-Stout Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Ist Teil von

• Case reports in pulmonology, 2018, Vol.2018, p.2406496-2406496

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Gorham-Stout syndrome is an uncommon entity, with few cases reported in bibliography. It consists of osteolytic manifestations affecting various bones and replacing them with lymphangiomatous tissue. With pathophysiology unknown, Gorham-Stout disease affects also cardiorespiratory system usually causing lytic lesions to the bones of the thoracic cage or directly invading the thoracic duct. This is a case report of a unique respiratory manifestation of the disease and a review of its cardiorespiratory complications.