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A 60-year-old man was noted to have an elevated lesion in the right mainstem bronchus on chest computed tomography (CT) during his annual medical checkup 3 years previously. The lesion had gradually increased in size. FDG-PET showed no accumulation.
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December 2023
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan.
Pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is difficult to diagnose and relatively rare. Tissue sampling through transbronchial biopsy is often inadequate, necessitating surgical lung biopsy. However, a recently developed technique, transbronchial lung cryobiopsy (TBLC), has shown promise for obtaining larger specimens.
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November 2022
Respiratory Department, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (pMALT) lymphomas are rare, representing <1% of lung malignancies. An association between pMALT and autoimmune conditions has been described, but there is a paucity of documented cases linked to coeliac disease. We present the case of a patient with a history of coeliac disease who presented with weight loss but no respiratory symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Thorac Imaging
November 2022
Department of Radiology.
Cureus
February 2021
Pulmonary Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA.
Endobronchial tumors (ET) are unusual and mostly malignant, presenting with non-specific symptoms that often delay appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Lymphomas in the airway represent less than 1% of pulmonary malignancies and require multidisciplinary approach for their management. We present a case of a 48-year-old male former smoker with a one-year history of recurrent respiratory infections and new-onset shortness of breath.
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