scholarly journals A Rare Case Diagnosed by Videothoracoscopic Lung Biopsy: Diffuse Pulmonary Meningotheliomatosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Anton Dzian ◽  
Marek Malík ◽  
Ľuboš Hamada ◽  
Jozef Mičák ◽  
Ivana Gregorová ◽  
...  

Diffuse pulmonary meningotheliomatosis (DPM) is reported as a diffuse parenchymal lung disease characterized by disseminating small asymptomatic nodules. These lesions are often detected incidentally as microscopic findings in lung specimens or autopsies examined by a pathologist. We report a case of a 60-year-old male asymptomatic patient presenting with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules on high-resolution computed tomography and diagnosed by videothoracoscopic surgery. Differential diagnosis of patients presenting with diffuse indeterminate nodules is very important. Definitive diagnosis of DPM requires histopathology and most often videothoracoscopic lung biopsy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
Lewis Wesselius ◽  

No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. History of Present Illness A 56-year-old man was referred for a second opinion on recent onset of diffuse parenchymal lung disease. He had started noting mild dyspnea with yard work approximately in March 2021. His symptoms progressed over the next month with increasing shortness of breath and some fever. He presented to outside emergency department on April 17, 2021 and chest CT showing patchy ground-glass opacities with some areas of irregular consolidation (Figure 1). He was subsequently seen by an outside pulmonologist and started empirically on prednisone (50 mg/day). An outside lung biopsy had been performed which showed nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis. There was some improvement in his symptoms and his prednisone dose was reduced to 20 mg/day; however, his symptoms subsequently worsened with saturations noted to drop to 85% with any ambulation. He also had swelling of his left face and a biopsy of the parotid gland with the findings …


Pneumologie ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Kahn ◽  
A Rossler ◽  
K Hornemann ◽  
T Muley ◽  
A Warth ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Griese ◽  
Armin Irnstetter ◽  
Meike Hengst ◽  
Helen Burmester ◽  
Felicitas Nagel ◽  
...  

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