Pulmonary ossification: an unusual incidental finding of a transthoracic CT guided needle biopsy of a lung lesion
| Autor: | María José Bello-Peón, Francisco José Fernández-Fernández, Cristina Durana-Tonder, Tamara Caínzos-Romero |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Chest pain Radiography Interventional Biopsy medicine Humans Lung Aged 80 and over Incidental Findings medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Ossification Heterotopic Biopsy Needle Complete blood count Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Atrial fibrillation General Medicine medicine.disease Pleural Effusion medicine.anatomical_structure Heart failure Sputum Radiology medicine.symptom business Chest radiograph Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Postgraduate medical journal. 86(1021) |
| ISSN: | 1469-0756 |
| Popis: | An 82-year-old man was admitted to hospital because of asthenia, anorexia, and cough with blood-tinged sputum for the preceding 2 weeks. He had smoked one pack of cigarettes per day for 40 years but had stopped 20 years earlier. Two years before presentation a coronary angiography and echocardiography were performed for evaluation of chest pain, which revealed normal coronary arteries and normal left ventricular function. He had a history of hypertension and permanent atrial fibrillation but had been otherwise well, and there was no history of heart failure. The complete blood count, and serum values of glucose, creatinine, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphorus were normal. A chest radiograph showed a mass in the left upper lung field. A CT scan of … |
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