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Severe 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

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Département d'oncologie médicale, E-mail : raoul@rennes.fnclcc.fr

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.