[Difficult diagnosis in a case of pulmonary epidermoid carcinoma].
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.
Pop
Monica
M
Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Iuliu Haţieganu Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Medicini, Disciplina de Pneumologie.
Goron
Monica
M
Man
Milena
M
Râjnoveanul
Ruxandra
R
Chiş
Amalia
A
Gabor
Daniela
D
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