Neumonía en organización por radiación en el paciente con cáncer de mama. Caso Clínico

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Morales Soto, Arturo; Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Facultad de Medicina. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Calvo de la Barra, Carlos; Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Pinheiro de Carvalho, Graca; Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Facultad de Medicina. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

González Bombardiere, Sergio; Departamento de Anatomía Patológica. Facultad de Medicina. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Saldías Peñafiel, Fernando; Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Facultad de Medicina. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

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Abstract
RADIATION ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA. REPORT OF ONE CASE We report a 64 years-old woman who underwent sparing mastectomy with adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. One month after the end of radiotherapy, she presented with malaise, fever, fatigue, cough and migratory bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on serial radiological images. The microbiological studies of bronchoalveolar lavage were negative. The patient underwent a trans bronchial biopsy and the pathological diagnosis was compatible with an organizing pneumonia presumably associated with radiotherapy.  Systemic steroid treatment was successful with rapid and complete resolution of clinical and radiographic manifestations.  
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