[A case of stage I adenocarcinoma of the lung complicated with inflammatory lesions with an 8-year clinical course before surgery; CT and pathological correlations].
A nodular shadow near left hilum of lung was detected by chest radiography in November 1993 in a 79-year-old woman with hypertension and diabetes. Chest radiography in April 2001 revealed growth of the shadow. Chest CT showed a localized ground-glass opacity in the periphery of the lesion shadow. The resected specimen showed that the nodular shadow was papillary adenocarcinoma and the localized ground-glass opacity indicated the presence of inflammatory lesions. The pathological stage was stage I. Our case was a rare adenocarcinoma complicated with inflammatory changes including a granuloma that appeared 8 years later.
Shibusa
Takashi
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Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rumoi City Hospital, 2-16, Shinonome-cho, Rumoi City, Hokkaido 077-8511, Japan.
Abe
Shosaku
S
Yamamoto
Makoto
M
Yoshikawa
Takashi
T
D000231:Adenocarcinoma, Papillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed