title: [Chronic pneumonia?].
abstract: The differential diagnosis of persistent radiologic pulmonary shadow is broad and is illustrated and discussed with the help of four patients histories. The term chronic pneumonia is a misnomer. Particularly, slowly growing types of lung cancer should be considered as a potential etiology. They are potentially curable by surgical resection. Other diseases can be treated as soon as they are specified with appropriate diagnostic methods.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Pneumologie, UniversitätsSpital Zürich. erich.russi@usz.ch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Russi
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002282:Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed