• Respirology · Jan 2016

    Letter Case Reports

    Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis in association with carcinomas.

    • Eva Baroke, Claus Peter Heussel, Arne Warth, Monika Eichinger, Ute Oltmanns, Karin Palmowski, Felix J F Herth, and Michael Kreuter.
    • Department of Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
    • Respirology. 2016 Jan 1; 21 (1): 191-4.

    AbstractPPFE is a rare disease characterized by upper lobe pleural fibrosis and parenchymal fibroelastosis. Its aetiology is considered idiopathic, although possible causative factors have been described. An association of PPFE with solid tumours is unknown and has not been considered previously. We identified six patients with PPFE, four of them with a coexisting malignancy. The case series suggests that PPFE might be an implication of varying factors rather than being an exclusively idiopathic condition. © 2015 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology.

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