ReviewRomanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
Lung cancer mimickers - a case series of seven patients and review of the literature.
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- Early Lung Cancer Detection via AI-Enhanced CT Image Processing Software.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Stereotactic body radiotherapy for early‑stage non‑small cell lung cancer: Comprehensive analysis of outcomes and recurrence from a single‑center experience.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Development of a coagulation‑related gene model for prognostication, immune response and treatment prediction in lung adenocarcinoma.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Comparison of enteral nutrition methods with weight improvement in patients with T4b esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the lung: a comprehensive narrative review of clinical and therapeutic insights.Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery · 2025Review
- Pulmonary cavernous hemangioma: a case report.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Recovery of temperature to normal may indicate the best time for surgery in patients with lung cancer complicated by a lung abscess: A case report.Oncology letters · 2024Article
- Small cell lung cancer associated small bowel obstruction, a diagnostic conundrum: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Lung Lesions: Differential Diagnoses Beyond Cancer.The American journal of case reports · 2024Article
- Desquamative interstitial pneumonia: A case report.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2024Article
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review of Genetics, Clinical Features, and Management Approaches.Cureus · 2024Review
- Quantitative and Qualitative Radiological Assessment of Sarcopenia and Cachexia in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Megaprosthesis for a Rare Case of Bone Metastasis of Thyroid Carcinoma: Case Management and Surgical Approach.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Diagnosis of lung cancer by flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy: a descriptive study.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologieArticle
- The clinicopathological challenges of symptomatic and incidental pulmonary hamartomas diagnosis.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologieArticle
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Abstract
backgroundLung is the third most frequent identified site of malignancy and lung cancer is the most lethal type of cancer in the world. Several benign lung diseases or proliferations may mimic lung carcinoma in its clinical, pathological, and radiological presentation, which makes the differential diagnosis life changing. This case series was designed to describe the main diagnosis encountered in a multidisciplinary emergency hospital during the last years in Romania.
resultsThe most challenging cases encountered during the recent years were those of lung hamartoma associated with eosinophilic pneumonia because of the multicentricity of the disease and the suspicion for metastasis in the clinical setting, pulmonary aspergillosis that presented as a cystic lesion with a 9 mm mural nodule, actinomycosis discovered as firm nodule showing aspects of false pleural invasion, cryptococcosis - a hilar mass for which a pneumectomy was prepared, pulmonary parasitosis that presented as a nodule with irregular borders, causing pleural retraction, one case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the lung, one case of tumorlet type neuroendocrine lesion in a patient with history of melanoma and renal oncocytoma, admitted under the suspicion of lung metastasis.
conclusionsThese are some of the main mimickers of primary or secondary lung cancers and one must be aware of these similitudes to avoid higher cost procedures, psychological stress for the patient and higher mortality.
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