Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications

We present the case of a 71 y/o man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who presented with 3 weeks of cough, phlegm, fever, and failed outpatient antibiotic therapy for pneumonia. CT of the chest showed unilateral interstitial changes and bronchoscopic biopsies demonstrated primary lun...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Ankit, Palkar, Atul, Narwal, Priya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30094154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.07.004
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description We present the case of a 71 y/o man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who presented with 3 weeks of cough, phlegm, fever, and failed outpatient antibiotic therapy for pneumonia. CT of the chest showed unilateral interstitial changes and bronchoscopic biopsies demonstrated primary lung papillary adenocarcinoma and extensive concentric psammomatous calcifications.
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spelling pubmed-60802172018-08-09 Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications Gupta, Ankit Palkar, Atul Narwal, Priya Respir Med Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a 71 y/o man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who presented with 3 weeks of cough, phlegm, fever, and failed outpatient antibiotic therapy for pneumonia. CT of the chest showed unilateral interstitial changes and bronchoscopic biopsies demonstrated primary lung papillary adenocarcinoma and extensive concentric psammomatous calcifications. Elsevier 2018-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6080217/ /pubmed/30094154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.07.004 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title_full Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title_fullStr Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title_full_unstemmed Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title_short Papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
title_sort papillary lung adenocarcinoma with psammomatous calcifications
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30094154
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