Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis

We report the case of a middle aged man, 43-pack-years active smoker, who upon radiographic screening for lung cancer found to have a non-spiculated lung nodule concerning for malignancy. Histologic evaluation of this lesion turned out to be a nodule due to Histoplasma capsulatum.

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Autores principales: Khoo, Teresa, Clarke, Gary, Psevdos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
Materias:
Pictorial Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581266
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_92_18
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spelling pubmed-62763142018-12-21 Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis Khoo, Teresa Clarke, Gary Psevdos, George J Glob Infect Dis Pictorial Education We report the case of a middle aged man, 43-pack-years active smoker, who upon radiographic screening for lung cancer found to have a non-spiculated lung nodule concerning for malignancy. Histologic evaluation of this lesion turned out to be a nodule due to Histoplasma capsulatum. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6276314/ /pubmed/30581266 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_92_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title_full Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title_fullStr Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title_full_unstemmed Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title_short Lung Cancer Screening Reveals a Nonspiculated Nodule: Histoplasmosis
title_sort lung cancer screening reveals a nonspiculated nodule: histoplasmosis
topic Pictorial Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581266
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_92_18
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