Highlights a rare complication of lung abscess secondary to bronchial obstruction by a pulmonary chondroma in a patient with Carney's syndrome.
May prompt consideration of chondroma-related obstruction in post-gastrectomy lung abscess; extends Carney syndrome spectrum but remains hypothesis-generating.
Carney's syndrome consists of a combination of three rare tumours: gastric leiomyosarcoma, pulmonary chondroma and catecholamine-secreting paraganglioma. We describe a young woman with Carney's syndrome, who developed a lung abscess, due to obstruction of a bronchus by a chondroma, 11 yrs after having had a partial gastrectomy for a leiomyosarcoma.
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