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ArticleCureus2021

Remarkable Response to Cisplatin Doublet Chemotherapy in Pulmonary Metastasis With Left Atrial Extension From a Nasopharyngeal Cancer.

Frank S Fan, Chen-Feng Chiu, Hsuan-Hua Huang, Hwei-Fan Wendy Shu

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Frank S FanSection of Hematology and Oncology, Ministry of Health and Welfare Taitung Hospital, Taitung County, TWN.
Chen-Feng ChiuSection of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare Feng Yuan Hospital, Taichung City, TWN.
Hsuan-Hua HuangPathology, Ministry of Health and Welfare Feng Yuan Hospital, Taichung City, TWN.
Hwei-Fan Wendy ShuPathology, Ministry of Health and Welfare Feng Yuan Hospital, Taichung City, TWN.
Ministry of Health and Welfare · KRTaichung Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 60-year-old male patient whose nasopharyngeal carcinoma was brought to complete remission with induction chemotherapy composing of cisplatin plus fluorouracil and subsequent radiotherapy with intent of cure eight years ago presented with dyspnea due to left side massive pleural effusion with pleural seedings, left lower lobe huge space occupying lesion, and left atrial tumor extending from the intrapulmonary lesion through left inferior pulmonary veins. Pleural biopsy revealed a picture of nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma positive for Epstein-Barr virus-encoded small RNAs in situ hybridization, leading to a diagnosis of late pulmonary metastases from the antecedent nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Systemic chemotherapy with initial cisplatin plus paclitaxel and subsequent cisplatin plus gemcitabine brought remarkable resolution to the malignant cardiac and intrathoracic lesions. So far as we know, this is the first case report of left atrial invasion from pulmonary metastasis of a nasopharyngeal carcinoma origin in the English literature.

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chemotherapycisplatinepstein-barr virusgemcitabineleft atrium invasionnasopharyngeal cancerpaclitaxelpulmonary metastasis

Identifiers

PMID33959428
PMCPMC8093781
OpenAlexW3134367564

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