High-dose-rate endobronchial brachytherapy in endobronchial metastatic malignant chondroid syringoma

2001 Jan 1

01/01/2001

PubMed:

Respiration . 2001;68(4):406-10.

By A Solomonov , E Rosenblatt, O Ben-Izhak, L Goralnik, M Yigla

Abstract

A 65-year-old man with malignant chondroid syringoma (MCS) was found to have pulmonary metastases in the form of multiple pulmonary nodules 4 years after wide excision and adjuvant radiotherapy of a primary abdominal wall tumor. Atelectasis of the lingula due to obstructive endobronchial metastasis, resistant to combination chemotherapy, led us to perform high-dose rate (HDR) endobronchial brachytherapy for the first time in this rare tumor with a favorable response. This case emphasizes the role of HDR brachytherapy as a palliative procedure in endobronchial tumors not responding to other treatment modalities, even those considered to be radioresistant.

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