Spontaneous Haemothorax as Initial Presentation of Pleural Ewing Sarcoma: A Case Report
Alishba Khan, Andrew Mcdougall, Jon Tomas, Saddam Ibrahim, David Snead, Joshua Dale, Beatriz Lara, Nidhi Chaudhary · 2026
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Description
Alishba Khan and co-authors reported a rare and tragic presentation of Ewing sarcoma, a cancer of bone and soft tissue. A middle-aged patient arrived with two weeks of right-sided chest pain and breathlessness. Scans showed the right chest cavity fully clouded, with a soft-tissue growth on the pleura and fluid around it. The patient had beaten pelvic Ewing sarcoma in youth with drug and radiation treatment, and the new illness proved to be its return.
While doctors awaited biopsy, the patient declined quickly and moved to end-of-life care. A postmortem found a large bleed into the chest lining, the spontaneous haemothorax of the title, with collapsed lung, and tissue tests confirmed recurrent sarcoma. The authors review how such cases are diagnosed and why fast action on bleeding matters.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alishba Khan, Andrew Mcdougall, Jon Tomas, Saddam Ibrahim, David Snead, Joshua Dale, Beatriz Lara, Nidhi Chaudhary |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |