A Case of Bronchogenic Carcinoma with Eosinophilia

Park, Jeong Ok; Kook, Don Pyo; Jeong, Eun Taik; Jeong, Won Jai; Choi, In Seon; Park, Kyung Ok

doi:1984.31.2.62

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 31(2); 1984 > Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1984;31(2):62-68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1984.31.2.62 Published online June 1, 1984.

A Case of Bronchogenic Carcinoma with Eosinophilia

Jeong Ok Park, Don Pyo Kook, Eun Taik Jeong, Won Jai Jeong, In Seon Choi, Kyung Ok Park

Department of lnternal Medicine, Chonnam Unversity Medical School

심한 호산구증다증을 동반한 미분화편평상피세포 폐암 1예

박정옥, 국돈표, 정은택, 정원재, 최인선, 박경옥

Abstract

The solid and hematologic cancers are occasionally accompanied by peripheral blood eosinophilia and suggested tumor necrosis or wide dissemination, but the mechanisms underlying this curious relationship remain obscure. The association of this eosinophilic leukemoid reaction with carcinomas seems to occur most frequentlγ with bronchogenic carcinoma. Several mechanisms for this "association " were considered; eosinophil chemotactic factor, eosinopoietic hormone, eosinphilia mediated by T-lymphocyte indirectly and some possibility of co-existing paradtic infestation or drug allergy. We here reported a case of poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of lung accompanied with marked peripheral eosinophilia in a 60-year old male patient.