Publications by authors named "Renee K Dixon"
Article Synopsis
- Newly-appearing lung nodules in patients with existing lung cancer can complicate diagnosis, making it hard to distinguish between metastasis, infection, and inflammation.
- A case study is presented involving a patient with metastatic adenocarcinoma whose lung biopsy revealed pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) rather than cancer spread.
- The patient's heavy smoking and mutation status, along with the rare occurrence of PLCH following a lung cancer diagnosis, suggest a possible link between increased smoking and the development of PLCH in her lungs.
Purpose: Bronchoscopic biopsy of pulmonary carcinoid tumors has been controversial, and no study to date is dedicated to investigate diagnostic yield or safety. We reviewed our single center experience with pulmonary carcinoid tumors over a 10-year time period and assessed the diagnostic yield and safety of bronchoscopic biopsy of these tumors.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of all bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumors from January 2003 through January 2014 for patients treated at or referred to our tertiary care facility, including patient and tumor characteristics, diagnostic yield, and complications of bronchoscopy.