대한영상의학회지 (Jun 2016)

Localized Fibrosing Mediastinitis Causing Pulmonary Infarction: A Case Report

  • Young Keun Sur,
  • Eun Young Kim,
  • Doo Kyoung Kang,
  • Kyung Joo Park,
  • Young Wha Koh,
  • Joo Sung Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3348/jksr.2016.74.6.403
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 74, no. 6
pp. 403 – 406

Abstract

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A 44-year-old female patient visited our emergency room for hemoptysis and refractory chest wall pain of 2 months duration. She had no history of smoking or other medical conditions. Chest CT scan showed homogenously enhancing soft tissue mass without calcification at the left pulmonary hilum. Encasing and compression of the left lower pulmonary artery by the mass had resulted in pulmonary infarction in the left lower lobe. Laboratory tests for tuberculosis, fungus, and vasculitis were all negative. The patient underwent surgical biopsy and resection of infarcted left lower lobe that was histopathologically confirmed as fibrosing mediastinitis. Herein, we reported a rare case of surgically confirmed and treated localized fibrosing mediastinitis causing pulmonary infarction.

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