Coagulation intravasculaire disséminée et complications thromboemboliques dans le cancer bronchique non à petites cellules

We report the case of a 45-year-old female with non-small-cell lung cancer with metastases at diagnosis. The patient deve-loped and finally died of numberous thromboembolic events subsequent to DICS. This case illustrates some rather rare complications of DICS and offers the opportunity to discuss the main therapeutic goal in this situation, i.e. to modulate the disproportionate production of thrombin, inducing thromboses and/or hemorrhages by consumption of the cellular and plasmatic coagulation factors. This means a symptomatic and mostly etiologic treatment, especially chemotherapy which can in itself provoke thromboembolic events.