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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2020

Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis masquerading as unilateral heterogeneous emphysema.

Lakshmi Srinivasan, Saifullah Mohamed, Akshay Patel, Khurum Mazhar, Shilajit Ghosh

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lakshmi SrinivasanDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK.
Saifullah MohamedDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK.
Akshay PatelDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK.
Khurum MazharDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK.
Shilajit GhoshDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke On Trent, UK.
Royal Stoke University Hospital · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare, well-described pathology and usually is exclusive to females of a reproductive age. We present a 45 year-old lady who presented to the surgeons 1 year after an admission with acute dyspnoea following influenza infection. Initial computed tomography imaging findings demonstrated severe, heterogenous right-sided bullous emphysematous changes, but histopathological analysis of the post-operative specimen favoured a diagnosis of LAM. This case demonstrates the importance of considering LAM as a differential diagnosis for findings of unilateral emphysema or lobar emphysema, in which alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency has been excluded and in those without a significant smoking history.

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