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Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram

Round atelectasis (RA) is a rare disorder most commonly occurring in the presence of chronic pleural effusions due to the formation of adhesions and resultant pulmonary collapse. The most common culprit to this disease is asbestosis, but other causes of pleural effusions such as congestive heart fai...

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Autores principales: Abdelsayed, Nardine, Check, Larissa, Faris, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8786566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106204
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20646
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description Round atelectasis (RA) is a rare disorder most commonly occurring in the presence of chronic pleural effusions due to the formation of adhesions and resultant pulmonary collapse. The most common culprit to this disease is asbestosis, but other causes of pleural effusions such as congestive heart failure and pneumonia are reported in the literature. RA can occasionally mimic pulmonary cancers and should be identified to prevent the associated morbidity of tumor workup. We present a case of RA seen on echocardiogram, and then later on computed tomography mimicking a pleural tumor in a 58-year-old female with preexisting heart failure and recurrent pleural effusions. Consultation with radiology and recognition of RA prevented the unnecessary potential morbidity and mortality of further workup.
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spelling pubmed-87865662022-01-31 Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram Abdelsayed, Nardine Check, Larissa Faris, Mohamed Cureus Internal Medicine Round atelectasis (RA) is a rare disorder most commonly occurring in the presence of chronic pleural effusions due to the formation of adhesions and resultant pulmonary collapse. The most common culprit to this disease is asbestosis, but other causes of pleural effusions such as congestive heart failure and pneumonia are reported in the literature. RA can occasionally mimic pulmonary cancers and should be identified to prevent the associated morbidity of tumor workup. We present a case of RA seen on echocardiogram, and then later on computed tomography mimicking a pleural tumor in a 58-year-old female with preexisting heart failure and recurrent pleural effusions. Consultation with radiology and recognition of RA prevented the unnecessary potential morbidity and mortality of further workup. Cureus 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8786566/ /pubmed/35106204 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20646 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abdelsayed et al. https://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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Abdelsayed, Nardine
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Faris, Mohamed
Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title_full Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title_fullStr Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title_full_unstemmed Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title_short Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram
title_sort round atelectasis: a peculiar pseudotumor seen on echocardiogram
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8786566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106204
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20646
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