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SUBMITTER: Kazzaz FI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6348391 | biostudies-other | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kazzaz Farah I FI Cabanillas Maria E ME Bashoura Lara L Shannon Vickie R VR Faiz Saadia A SA
Respiratory medicine case reports 20190108
Spontaneous pneumothorax is rarely associated with cancer. We describe a 73 year old man who presented with recurrent tumor in the right neck, mediastinal lymphadenopathy and bilateral pulmonary nodules after thyroidectomy. He was treated with lenvatinib and presented with bilateral pneumothoraces. Anaplastic thyroid cancer is an aggressive subtype of thyroid cancer that has limited response to cytotoxic chemotherapy and poor prognosis. Recent reports show that targeted therapy with a multiple r ...[more]