TY - JOUR
T1 - Pulmonary infarction mimicking a lung mass
T2 - A case report
AU - Jayakrishnan, Balakrishnan
AU - Al-Mubaihsi, Saif Musabah
AU - Elhassan, Nisrien Elfatih
AU - Al-Sukaiti, Rashid Fuad
AU - George, Jojy
AU - Al-Alawi, Younis Said
AU - Al-Kindi, Adil Hashim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Balakrishnan Jayakrishnan et al.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Pulmonary infarction usually appears as a wedgeshaped opacity with its base placed laterally. Rarely, pulmonary infarctions may appear as a well-defined rounded opacity mimicking lung cancer and surgical lung biopsy may often be required for definitive diagnosis. We report a patient who was admitted with submassive pulmonary embolism who had an incidental finding of a well-defined opacity in computed tomography (CT) scan. The lesion was avid on positron emission tomography (PET) scan and the patient was a smoker. So, we investigated him further with a percutaneous and later a thoracoscopic lung biopsy. Tumour-like pulmonary infarction is often a challenge for the clinicians.
AB - Pulmonary infarction usually appears as a wedgeshaped opacity with its base placed laterally. Rarely, pulmonary infarctions may appear as a well-defined rounded opacity mimicking lung cancer and surgical lung biopsy may often be required for definitive diagnosis. We report a patient who was admitted with submassive pulmonary embolism who had an incidental finding of a well-defined opacity in computed tomography (CT) scan. The lesion was avid on positron emission tomography (PET) scan and the patient was a smoker. So, we investigated him further with a percutaneous and later a thoracoscopic lung biopsy. Tumour-like pulmonary infarction is often a challenge for the clinicians.
KW - Case report
KW - Lung cancer
KW - Pulmonary embolism
KW - Pulmonary infarction
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U2 - 10.11604/pamj.2021.38.127.27595
DO - 10.11604/pamj.2021.38.127.27595
M3 - Article
C2 - 33912297
AN - SCOPUS:85102626873
SN - 1937-8688
VL - 38
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Pan African Medical Journal
JF - Pan African Medical Journal
M1 - 127
ER -