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Primary pulmonary botryomycosis: An important differential diagnosis for lung cancer
Author(s) -
KATHIR KRISHNA,
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
respirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1440-1843
pISSN - 1323-7799
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2001.00354.x
Subject(s) - medicine , differential diagnosis , lung cancer , etiology , lung , radiology , computed tomographic , pathology , computed tomography
This is the sixteenth reported case of pulmonary botryomycosis, an uncommon suppurative bacterial infection of the lung. We describe the case of a 69‐year‐old man who presented with a chronic cough and intermittent haemoptysis and on subsequent chest computed tomographic scan imaging was found to have a right lower lobe mass. He underwent a right lower lobectomy for presumed lung cancer. Histological analysis however revealed a bacterial aetiology. The past literature is reviewed outlining the pathogenesis and difficulties of clinical and radiological diagnosis. Primary pulmonary botryomycosis forms an important curative differential diagnosis for lung cancer.