Abstract

VERCOSA, C; GARCIA, M  and  MENA, F. SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA IN A NON-SMOKING PNEUMONECTOMIZED PATIENT - FIRST CRYOBIOPSY BY FIBROBRONCHOSCOPY IN BOLIVIA, CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION. Rev. Méd. La Paz [online]. 2023, vol.29, n.2, pp.58-64.  Epub Dec 30, 2023. ISSN 1726-8958.

Bronchogenic cancer has a genetic basis, which is expressed by external factors related to environmental and occupational exposure. In recent years, the epidemiological profile has changed with increasing incidence in women without tobacco habit in ranges of 50-70 years. A 50-year-old female patient with a history of exposure to wood smoke and pesticide use, with massive left lung atelectasis syndrome. Fibrobronchoscopy studies were performed with a biopsy of the left endobronchial tumor mass and the first cryobiopsy was performed by fibrobronchoscopy in Bolivia, later the patient underwent left pneumonectomy with a conclusive histopathological study of undifferentiated small cell carcinoma with a pulmonary primary. There is a strong association between environmental and occupational exposure and bronchogenic cancer in non-smokers, even in infrequent histopathological variants in this subgroup such as small cell or microcytic cancer.

Keywords : Carcinoma; microcytic; fiberoptic bronchoscopy; cryobiopsy; pneumonectomy.

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