[Pulmonary Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex disease that presented multiple nodular shadows rapidly].
The patient was 81-year-old woman diagnosed with lung cancer who underwent upper right lobectomy in January 2002. Computed tomography (CT) of the thorax showed a mass shadow presenting rapid-growing in the left S3 in August, 2008. The size of the mass shadow in the left S3 increased on day 16 after hospitalization, and a nodular shadow appeared in the left S(1+2). The bronchial washing specimen showed acid-fast bacilli identified as Mycobacterium intracellulare by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) -DNA hybridization (DDH). The patient showed radiological improvement following combination chemotherapy with rifampicin, ethambutol and clarithromycin.
Fujiwara
Kiyohiro
K
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shizuoka Fuji National Hospital, Fujinomiya, Japan.
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*