Inflammatory pseudotumor suspected of lung cancer treated by thoracoscopic resection
| Autor: | Katsutoshi Satoh, Shinji Hirai, Naru Chatani, Yoshiharu Hamanaka, Tatsuya Katayama, Takashi Nishizaka, Norimasa Mitsui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male medicine.medical_specialty Chest Pain Hemoptysis Lung Neoplasms Biopsy Plasma Cell Granuloma Pulmonary Diagnosis Differential medicine Thoracoscopy Humans Lung cancer Solitary pulmonary nodule Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Gastroenterology Solitary Pulmonary Nodule General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Plasma cell granuloma Surgery stomatognathic diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome Cough Positron-Emission Tomography Chronic Disease Inflammatory pseudotumor Female Differential diagnosis Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia. 17(1) |
| ISSN: | 2186-1005 |
| Popis: | We report a relatively rare surgical treatment for two cases of inflammatory pseudotumors of the lung. In case 1, a 52-year-old male with a history of left chest pain was admitted to our hospital for an abnormal nodule with an irregular margin that was detected in the left upper lung field. The nodule, measuring 15 mm in diameter, was larger than the one observed six months earlier, which had been removed by a thoracoscopic resection. In case 2, a 64-year-old female with a history of chronic cough and hemoptysis was admitted to our hospital, and an abnormal nodule with pleural indentation was detected in the lower left lung field. The nodule, measuring 8 mm in diameter, was also removed by a thoracoscopic resection. In both cases, the histologic examination enabled us to diagnose the lesion as an inflammatory pseudotumor. In general, it is very difficult to differentiate inflammatory pseudotumors from malignant tumors of the lung. The best treatment for inflammatory pseudotumors is usually early and complete surgical resection, since it can lead to improved survival. Therefore, we consider thoracoscopy-aided surgery to be less invasive and more useful than other surgical methods in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung. |
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