Pneumatosis intestinalis after etoposide-based chemotherapy in a patient with metastatic small cell lung cancer: successful conservative management of a rare condition
ABSTRACT A 69-year-old male patient, smoker, was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer metastatic to lung, liver and central nervous system.He received chemotherapy with carboplatin AUC 5 on day 1 Air Conditioner Inlet Valve and etoposide 100mg/m2 on days 1, 2 and 3.During the first cycle, the patient presented with febrile neutropenia and abdomina