Two rare complications in a single patient of lung cancer: Radiation-induced spontaneous esophageal perforation and aortic rupture and their successful management

Two rare complications in a single patient of lung cancer: Radiation-induced spontaneous esophageal perforation and aortic rupture and their successful management

Adjuvant radiotherapy is indicated in few operated cases of lung cancer for effective local control. Oesophageal perforation and aortic rupture are rare and lethal complications of postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy. Both of these complications happened in a 64 year male patient with squamous cell...

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Main Authors: Mohan Venkatesh Pulle, Harsh Vardhan Puri, Belal Bin Asaf, Arvind Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
Series:Annals of Thoracic Medicine
Subjects:
Aortic rupture
esophageal perforation
lung cancer
radiation therapy
Online Access:http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/article.asp?issn=1817-1737;year=2019;volume=14;issue=3;spage=213;epage=215;aulast=Pulle

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