Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report

Synchronous primary lung cancers are relatively rare. The accurate diagnosis remains challenging, despite of the routine use of bronchoscopy and computed tomography (CT) of the chest. Herein we report a case of synchronous triple primary cancers of the right lung in a 72-year-old male patient in who...

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Autores principales: Yoon, Hyun Jung, Lee, Ho Yun, Han, Joungho, Choi, Yoon-La
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2014
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Thoracic Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246827
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.5.646
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author Yoon, Hyun Jung
Lee, Ho Yun
Han, Joungho
Choi, Yoon-La
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description Synchronous primary lung cancers are relatively rare. The accurate diagnosis remains challenging, despite of the routine use of bronchoscopy and computed tomography (CT) of the chest. Herein we report a case of synchronous triple primary cancers of the right lung in a 72-year-old male patient in whom each tumor presented distinct CT imaging findings.
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spelling pubmed-41701672014-09-22 Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report Yoon, Hyun Jung Lee, Ho Yun Han, Joungho Choi, Yoon-La Korean J Radiol Thoracic Imaging Synchronous primary lung cancers are relatively rare. The accurate diagnosis remains challenging, despite of the routine use of bronchoscopy and computed tomography (CT) of the chest. Herein we report a case of synchronous triple primary cancers of the right lung in a 72-year-old male patient in whom each tumor presented distinct CT imaging findings. The Korean Society of Radiology 2014 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4170167/ /pubmed/25246827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.5.646 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yoon, Hyun Jung
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Choi, Yoon-La
Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title_full Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title_fullStr Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title_short Synchronous Triple Primary Lung Cancers: A Case Report
title_sort synchronous triple primary lung cancers: a case report
topic Thoracic Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246827
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