A lepidic adenocarcinoma mimicking an eosinophilic lung

Lepidic adenocarcinoma is a cancer with atypical radiological presentation making its diagnosis difficult and late. Here,we report the case of a 64-year-old man, who presented with respiratory distress his thoracic CT showed ground glass areas and diffuse condensations with blood hypereosinophilia....

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Autores principales: Senhaji, L., Alami, B., Serraj, M., El Biaze, M., Benjelloun, M.C., Amara, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9391599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35996530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101725
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author Senhaji, L.
Alami, B.
Serraj, M.
El Biaze, M.
Benjelloun, M.C.
Amara, B.
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description Lepidic adenocarcinoma is a cancer with atypical radiological presentation making its diagnosis difficult and late. Here,we report the case of a 64-year-old man, who presented with respiratory distress his thoracic CT showed ground glass areas and diffuse condensations with blood hypereosinophilia. He was diagnosed to have eosinophilic lung and was placed on corticosteroid therapy but he did not show any improvement. A CT-guided biopsy showed lepidic adenocarcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-93915992022-08-21 A lepidic adenocarcinoma mimicking an eosinophilic lung Senhaji, L. Alami, B. Serraj, M. El Biaze, M. Benjelloun, M.C. Amara, B. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Lepidic adenocarcinoma is a cancer with atypical radiological presentation making its diagnosis difficult and late. Here,we report the case of a 64-year-old man, who presented with respiratory distress his thoracic CT showed ground glass areas and diffuse condensations with blood hypereosinophilia. He was diagnosed to have eosinophilic lung and was placed on corticosteroid therapy but he did not show any improvement. A CT-guided biopsy showed lepidic adenocarcinoma. Elsevier 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9391599/ /pubmed/35996530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101725 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://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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Senhaji, L.
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A lepidic adenocarcinoma mimicking an eosinophilic lung
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title_full_unstemmed A lepidic adenocarcinoma mimicking an eosinophilic lung
title_short A lepidic adenocarcinoma mimicking an eosinophilic lung
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9391599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35996530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101725
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