Describe the clinical course of mesothelioma
As the disease progresses patients develop chest pain and shortness of breath.
Fatigue, dyspnea and hypoxia ensue. As the lesion invades thoracic structures, the following complications may develop:
- dysphagia
- hoarseness
- cord compression
- brachial plexopathy
- Horner’s syndrome
- superior vena cava syndrome
- disseminated intravascular coagulation
- migratory thrombophlebitis
- thrombocytosis
- coombs-positive hemolytic anemia
- hypoglycemia
- hypercalcemia