Abstract:

Patient aged 48 years followed for COPD evolutionary stage 3 according to the GOLD classification. In the waning of a unifocal lung, bronchial endoscopy performed to bacteriological referred highlights a squamous cell carcinoma in situ. During an endoscopic re-evaluation and treatment by local thermocoagulation, the patient experienced a massive cerebral embolism. Despite treatment with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and resuscitation care, he died in an array of postanoxic coma and acute renal failure in a tank.

Mimy, Nackers, , , , , , , (2011). [Clinical case of the month. Cerebral air embolism arising during a procedure of thermocoagulation of a bronchial epidermoid carcinoma in situ by fiberscopy]. Revue medicale de Liege, 2011 Feb;66(2):64-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21661200