Coexistence of primary adenocarcinoma of the lung and Tsukamurella infection: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: A major diagnostic challenge in the evaluation of a cavitary lung lesion is to distinguish between infectious and malignant etiologies. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of an elderly man presenting with fever, hemoptysis and a left upper lobe cavitary lesion. Serial sputum cultur...

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Autores principales: Perez, Vinicio A de Jesus, Swigris, Jeffrey, Ruoss, Stephen J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18554413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-207

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18554413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-207

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