Exogenous lipoid pneumonia secondary to Vaseline application to the tracheostomy in a laryngectomy patient: PET/CT and MR imaging findings.

Autor: Gorospe L; Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, 28034 Madrid, Spain. luisgorospe@yahoo.com, Gallego-Rivera JI, Hervás-Morón A
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical imaging [Clin Imaging] 2013 Jan-Feb; Vol. 37 (1), pp. 163-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Jun 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2012.02.002
Abstrakt: A 67-year-old female ex-smoker was referred to our hospital after chest radiographs revealed a nonresolving opacity in the right lower lung. Her past medical history was significant for laryngeal cancer. A whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (CT) confirmed an ill-defined fluorodeoxyglucose-avid peribronchial opacity in the right middle and inferior lobes. The CT component of the study showed focal areas of low attenuation within the lung opacity; these focal areas followed fat signal intensity on a magnetic resonance study, confirming the suspicion of exogenous lipoid pneumonia. The patient admitted to applying petroleum jelly (Vaseline) to her tracheostomy in order to moisturize the area around the stoma.
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