[Misdiagnosed peripheral pulmonary adenocarcinomas in radiographical follow-ups (author's transl)].
By means of chest radiograph-series it is pointed out that adenocarcinomas of the lung show only a slow growth in the initial stage. Therefore failures in diagnosis are not uncommon despite of well timed abnormal findings in X-ray-investigations. In the differential-diagnosis the special use of tomography plays an important part. The existence of metastases has to be supposed when the radiological presence of a solitary nodule is evident during some years, even if the primary tumour itself shows only a very slow growth.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
Fehldeutung peripherer Adenokarzinome der Lunge bei langem Röntgenverlauf