title: [Difficult diagnosis in a case of pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma].
abstract: We present a case of a 66 years old male patient, from urban area, smoker for 54 years, without special antecedents, hospitalized in our service with a pulmonary right lower lobe abscess, whose onset was 4 months ago, persistent under treatment in another pneumology service. Clinically and radiologically we suspected a pulmonary excavated right lower lobe neoplasia, but unsustained by fiber-bronchoscopy and thoracic computer tomography. By this reason the patient underwent exploratory thoracotomy and the diagnosis was confirmed by the biopsy of the resected specimen: pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma. The short term outcome was favourable.
authors.affiliation: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Iuliu Haţieganu Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Medicini, Disciplina de Pneumologie.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pop
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goron
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Man
authors.forename: Ruxandra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Râjnoveanul
authors.forename: Amalia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chiş
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gabor
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed