Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass

The authors present a case of a 57-year-old man presenting with a solitary lung mass. Transbronchial biopsy showed an organizing pneumonia pattern. A therapeutic trial of corticosteroids resulted in complete resolution avoiding surgery. The authors discuss the diagnosis of focal organizing pneumonia...

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Autores principales: Alikhan, Mir, Veeraraghavan, Srihari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/340202
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spelling pubmed-37459312013-08-27 Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass Alikhan, Mir Veeraraghavan, Srihari Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report The authors present a case of a 57-year-old man presenting with a solitary lung mass. Transbronchial biopsy showed an organizing pneumonia pattern. A therapeutic trial of corticosteroids resulted in complete resolution avoiding surgery. The authors discuss the diagnosis of focal organizing pneumonia without surgical resection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3745931/ /pubmed/23984154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/340202 Text en Copyright © 2013 M. Alikhan and S. Veeraraghavan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass
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title_full Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass
title_fullStr Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass
title_full_unstemmed Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass
title_short Empiric Treatment of Focal Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient with a Low-Risk Lung Mass
title_sort empiric treatment of focal organizing pneumonia in a patient with a low-risk lung mass
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