A case of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia syndrome with preceding radiation pneumonitis after breast-conserving therapy

Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2004 Dec;34(12):755-8. doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyh134.

Abstract

Recent case series have demonstrated that bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) after radiation therapy to the breast is a distinct clinicopathological entity. Most of the investigators speculated that radiation may prime the development of BOOP through an unidentified immunological process; however, none of them showed the relationship between direct radiation injury and BOOP. We report herein a case of a 67-year-old female with BOOP following direct radiation damage confined to the irradiated area after breast-conserving therapy. This is the first case demonstrating that BOOP after breast-conserving therapy arises from direct radiation injury.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / surgery
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / cytology
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / immunology
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
  • Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / etiology*
  • Dose Fractionation, Radiation
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mastectomy, Segmental
  • Radiation Pneumonitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiation Pneumonitis / etiology*
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed