Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation

The diagnosis of lymphangitic carcinomatosis is challenging due to the manifestation of nonspecific symptoms and radiographic abnormalities that bear similarity to those of interstitial lung disease. Herein, we report the case of a 53-year-old woman diagnosed with lymphangitic carcinomatosis from me...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Swati, Ojha, Shishir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7707955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33299624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4150924
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description The diagnosis of lymphangitic carcinomatosis is challenging due to the manifestation of nonspecific symptoms and radiographic abnormalities that bear similarity to those of interstitial lung disease. Herein, we report the case of a 53-year-old woman diagnosed with lymphangitic carcinomatosis from metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma, 3 months after her initial presentation.
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spelling pubmed-77079552020-12-08 Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation Pandey, Swati Ojha, Shishir Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report The diagnosis of lymphangitic carcinomatosis is challenging due to the manifestation of nonspecific symptoms and radiographic abnormalities that bear similarity to those of interstitial lung disease. Herein, we report the case of a 53-year-old woman diagnosed with lymphangitic carcinomatosis from metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma, 3 months after her initial presentation. Hindawi 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7707955/ /pubmed/33299624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4150924 Text en Copyright © 2020 Swati Pandey and Shishir Ojha. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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title_full Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation
title_fullStr Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation
title_short Delays in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis due to Benign Presentation
title_sort delays in diagnosis of pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis due to benign presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7707955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33299624
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