Lung cancer and peritoneal mesothelioma: two complications of asbestos exposure in the same patient]

Association of a lung cancer and a malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is reported in a 78-year-old patient with significant asbestos exposure.After exploration of an intra-pulmonary opacity, with inspissated pleura, the diagnosis of primary pulmonary adenocarcinoma was obtained by thoracotomy in April 1999. In February 2002, the diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma was made by laparoscopy. The course was marked by irreducible ascites and was fatal 7 months after the diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma.Malignant mesothelioma is a rare disease and even rare in association with lung cancer.