CTICasesBleomycin-induced pulmonary toxicity with cavitation and pneumothorax
Imaging findings
CT scan of a patient with testicular cancer receiving bleomycin demonstrates subpleural consolidation consistent with organizing pneumonia, along with cavitary pulmonary lesions containing air-fluid levels and a small spontaneous pneumothorax.
Key takeaways
Bleomycin-induced lung toxicity classically presents as organizing pneumonia or interstitial fibrosis. Cavitation and pneumothorax are rare manifestations of bleomycin toxicity, and other etiologies like necrotic metastases or septic emboli must be ruled out.
AI-assisted summary — may contain errors. Verify against the source video. Learn more
More from this webinar
- EVALI with duplicated superior vena cavaExposure
- Common origin of the subclavian arteries simulating a paratracheal massCongenital
- Chronic bronchiectasis from remote silo filler's diseaseExposure
- Multiple visceral aneurysms in Menkes syndromeCongenital
- Primary mediastinal CIC-rearranged sarcomaNeoplastic
- Round pneumonia caused by Legionella mcdadeiInfection
See all cases from September 13, 2019 →
Related Iatrogenic cases
- Aortic graft thrombus following debranching surgery
- Right middle lobe torsion following right upper lobectomy
- Negative pressure pulmonary edema from endotracheal tube occlusion
- Twiddler's syndrome (pacemaker lead retraction)
- Retrosternal mediastinal abscess from LVAD driveline infection
- Left ventricular perforation post-TAVR