title: Surgery for recurrent inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cases of recurrent inflammatory pseudotumor have only rarely been reported. The treatment for recurrent pseudotumor is surgery. Patients not eligible for surgery require different treatment, and the optimal type of the treatment is controversial.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 54-year-old woman was noted to have an abnormal shadow in the right middle lung field on chest X-ray. Computed tomography of the chest revealed an infiltrative lesion in the right segment 4 and a nodule in the right segment 8. She underwent right middle lobectomy and partial resection of the right segment 8. Histopathology revealed non-atypical lymphocytes and plasma cells infiltrates, leading to the diagnosis of the lymphoplasmacytic type of inflammatory pseudotumor. During postoperative follow-up, chest computed tomography revealed a nodular lesion in the left segment 3 and an infiltrative lesion in the right segment 2. Left segment 3 segmentectomy and right segment 2 wedge resection were performed. The histopathological findings were similar to those of the first surgical specimen, leading to the diagnosis of recurrent lymphoplasmacytic type of inflammatory pseudotumor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgical cases of recurrent inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung have been reported only very rarely. We believe that surgery is the best treatment for recurrent inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung when patients are eligible.
authors: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. taichiro@1997.jukuin.keio.ac.jp
authors: Taichiro
authors: T
authors: Goto
authors: Kumi
authors: K
authors: Akanabe
authors: Arafumi
authors: A
authors: Maeshima
authors: Ryoichi
authors: R
authors: Kato
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed