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Multiple Bilateral Incidental Lung Nodules in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Lung nodules are often incidentally discovered on lung imaging and can be solitary, which makes them suspicious for tumors, or multiple, which can be suggestive of an infectious process. A bronchial carcinoid is a rare pulmonary neoplasm, representing 1.2% of all primary pulmonary tumors. We report...

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Autores principales: Khan, Muhammad Umar Hayat, Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Uzair, Mustafa, Ayesha, Silverman, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7359970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32676234
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8593
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description Lung nodules are often incidentally discovered on lung imaging and can be solitary, which makes them suspicious for tumors, or multiple, which can be suggestive of an infectious process. A bronchial carcinoid is a rare pulmonary neoplasm, representing 1.2% of all primary pulmonary tumors. We report a case of incidentally discovered multiple lung nodules in an asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient, which turned out to be a tumor, necessitating the need for keeping a broad differential, a high degree of clinical suspicion, and long-term follow-up for the optimal management of the patient.
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spelling pubmed-73599702020-07-15 Multiple Bilateral Incidental Lung Nodules in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Khan, Muhammad Umar Hayat Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Uzair Mustafa, Ayesha Silverman, Richard Cureus Internal Medicine Lung nodules are often incidentally discovered on lung imaging and can be solitary, which makes them suspicious for tumors, or multiple, which can be suggestive of an infectious process. A bronchial carcinoid is a rare pulmonary neoplasm, representing 1.2% of all primary pulmonary tumors. We report a case of incidentally discovered multiple lung nodules in an asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient, which turned out to be a tumor, necessitating the need for keeping a broad differential, a high degree of clinical suspicion, and long-term follow-up for the optimal management of the patient. Cureus 2020-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7359970/ /pubmed/32676234 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8593 Text en Copyright © 2020, Khan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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