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CASE REPORT
Lung consolidation responding to chemotherapy
  1. Prasanth Balasubramaniam1,
  2. Ram V Nampoothiri2,
  3. Nalini Gupta2,
  4. Pankaj Malhotra1,3
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  2. 2PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  3. 3Department of Hematology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Pankaj Malhotra, hematpgi{at}gmail.com

Summary

Consolidations in the pulmonary parenchyma are mostly infective, although they can rarely be due to autoimmune and neoplastic processes. Consolidations, especially in the setting of underlying immunosuppressive haematological malignancy, are usually presumed infective by the treating physician. Pulmonary involvement in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia presenting as consolidations and type 1 respiratory failure, responding to systemic chemotherapy, is a rare and uncommon presentation.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-218304

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors PB is responsible for preparing the manuscript. RVN is responsible for editing the manuscript, managing patient and literature review. NG is responsible for histopathological diagnosis, images and flow cytometry. PM is responsible for concept of the article, managing patient and literature review.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.