Bulletin du Cancer
MENUSevere interstitial pneumopathy due to herpes virus after radiochemotherapy for esophageal carcinoma Severe interstitial pneumopathy due to herpes virus after radiochemotherapy for esophageal carcinoma Volume 88, issue 11, Novembre 2001
Authors
Département d'oncologie médicale, E-mail : raoul@rennes.fnclcc.fr
- Key words: pneumopathy, esophageal carcinoma
- Page(s) : 1091-3
- Published in: 2001
The authors report two cases of severe bilateral interstitial pneumopathies occuring after a medical treatment for esophageal carcinoma. In both cases a bronco-alveolar lavage revealed the presence of herpes virus and a specific treatment rapidly cured the patients.