Pulmonary nodular amyloidosis in a patient undergoing lobectomy: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Jun Chen¹  Qinghua Zhou¹  Hongyu Liu¹  Xin Li¹  Sen Wei¹  Min Liu¹ 

[1] Department of Lung Cancer Surgery, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 30052, China

关键词: Pulmonary nodules;    Differential diagnosis;    Amyloidosis;   

Others  :  825101
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-1947-7-248

 received in 2013-01-22, accepted in 2013-08-29,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Introduction

Pulmonary amyloidosis is rare and is often misdiagnosed due a lack of general awareness.

Case presentation

In this case report we describe a 69-year-old Chinese woman who presented with a right lower lobe pulmonary nodule. After video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy, a histopathologic diagnosis of pulmonary nodular amyloidosis was rendered. She has done well postoperatively, showing no local recurrence or distal disease in an 8-month follow-up period.

Conclusions

Distinguishing parenchymal nodular amyloidosis from a malignant lung tumor is often quite difficult. In the differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules, nodular amyloidosis should be considered to avoid unnecessary lobectomy.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Liu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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