Eosinophilia and lung cancer. Case report

Abstract

A 74-year-old female patient presented at the medical office, with a history of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and smoker. Two months ago she had started with a dry cough that later became wet, with whitish expectoration and pain in the tip of the left side, sometimes shortness of breath with general symptoms like: asthenia, anorexia and dysphonia. She was diagnosed with bronchitis without complete resolution. Laboratory tests revealed eosinophilia associated with lung and other studies. Eosinophilia and lung cancer is an entity that shares the presence of pulmonary infiltrates and an increasing number of eosinophils in peripheral blood or lung tissue at some point in its evolution. It is concluded that the increase in eosinophils it´s due to various causes. Eosinophilia and lung cancer constitutes one of the neoplastic conditions, and one of the highest incidences in the world.

Keywords

• cáncer de pulmón
• eosinofilia
• eosinófilos
• enfermedad pulmonar