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ArticleCureus2024

Multifocal Pulmonary Opacities in an Elderly Smoker.

Patton C McClelland, Zachary Jarrett, Christian C Lamb, Mateo Houle

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Article in Cureus, 2024. 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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Patton C McClellandInternal Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA.
Zachary JarrettPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA.
Christian C LambPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA.
Mateo HoulePulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organizing pneumonia (OP) directly caused by ongoing cigarette smoking does not appear to have been previously described. Despite OP having pathophysiological features distinct from lung cancer, the two may be confused based on similar clinical, radiological, and histopathological findings. This distinction is further clouded by the dynamic nature of these diseases. Diagnostic accuracy can likely be improved with a multidisciplinary approach that involves input from several specialists and serial reevaluations as the disease evolves. We present a case of OP that was initially misdiagnosed as non-small-cell lung cancer and resolved with smoking cessation.

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histologyimaginglung cancerorganizing pneumoniapathologypulmonary opacityradiologysmokingtobacco

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PMID39691141
PMCPMC11650100

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