[Clinical case of the month. Compression of the right main bronchus by a mesothelioma].

Rev Med Liege

Service de Pneumologie, CHU Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgique.

Published: November 2006

We report the case of a patient treated by chemotherapy for a diagnosis of mesothelioma. A quickly progressive dyspnea developed which was due to compression of the right main bronchus by mediastinal extension of the tumor. This obstruction was treated by interventionnal bronchoscopy and stenting.

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