A case of lung adenocarcinoma developing chylothorax after transthoracic Tru-cut biopsy

Şerife Torun

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2024.22556

Şerife Torun¹, Çağrı Kesim², Mehmet Dalokay Kılıç³

¹Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Başkent University Konya Practice and Research Center, Konya, Türkiye
²Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, Başkent University Konya Application and Research Center, Konya, Türkiye
³Department of Thoracic Surgery, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2024.22556

Chylothoraces are mostly secondary to trauma and tumors, and rarely idiopathic. Chylothoraces secondary to lung tumors are mostly seen postoperatively. In this article, we, for the first time, present massive chylothorax developing after diagnostic transthoracic Tru-cut biopsy in a lung adenocarcinoma case. The patient was successfully treated with drainage and octreotide. In conclusion, it should be kept in mind that chylothorax can be also seen as a complication after interventional biopsy procedures; therefore, the patients should be followed carefully.

Keywords : Chylothorax, lung cancer, octreotide, transthoracic Tru-cut biopsy

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