Acta Médica del Centro (Apr 2016)

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung, report of a patient

  • Gustavo Alonso Pérez Zavala,
  • Francisco Javier Paz Peña,
  • Barbarita Chirino Rivero,
  • Johamel Ramos Valdés

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 94 – 100

Abstract

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Inflammatory pseudotumor or pulmonary fibroxanthoma is a less frequent tumor. Endobronchial lesion is an unusual event characterized by being a mesenchymatous tumor lack of typical clinical expression, with common symptoms in other diseases without pathognomonic clinical signs that describe it; diagnosis is usually histological and histochemical analysis of biopsy. The fibroxanthoma should be considered as a differential diagnosis in mesenchymal tumors; they are needed a complete analytical and radiological clinical studies before defining the therapeutic behavior.

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