The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

December 2022

Large Intrathoracic Desmoid Tumor and Re-Expansion Pulmonary Edema: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Author Information

Pistioli E (1), Soulioti E (1), Kapetanakis EI (2), Michos TP (2) Tomos PI (2), Sidiropoulou T (1).

(1) Second Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Rimini 1, 12462 Athens, Greece. (2) Department of Thoracic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Rimini 1, 12462 Athens, Greece.

Publication

Medicina (Kaunas)

Summary

Re-expansion pulmonary edema is a potentially life-threatening situation following thoracic surgery of a compromised lung. We report the case of a 24-year-old female scheduled for a resection of a large intrathoracic desmoid tumor that presented with re-expansion pulmonary edema at the conclusion of her surgery and discuss the clinical presentation, mechanism and predictors of this entity and review similar cases reported in the literature.

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