TY - JOUR
T1 - Two cases of intrapulmonary lymph node presenting as a peripheral nodular shadow
T2 - Diagnostic differentiation from lung cancer
AU - Fujimoto, Nobukazu
AU - Segewa, Yoshihiko
AU - Takigawa, Nagio
AU - Takata, Ichiro
AU - Hotta, Katsuyuki
AU - Mogami, Hiroshi
AU - Nakata, Masao
AU - Mandai, Koichi
AU - Eguchi, Kenji
PY - 1998/6/1
Y1 - 1998/6/1
N2 - We present two cases of intrapulmonary lymph node. The patients were a 44-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man each with a small peripheral nodule in the lung. On computed tomography (CT) scans, both nodules were spiculated. Since histological diagnosis could not be obtained by bronchoscopic examination or CT-guided needle biopsy, they underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Histological examination of the resected material revealed that both nodules were composed of lymph node. Intrapulmonary lymph node has until recently been assigned no clinical significance; however, differential diagnosis of this lesion from lung cancers and other metastatic tumors is now clinically important. Copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
AB - We present two cases of intrapulmonary lymph node. The patients were a 44-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man each with a small peripheral nodule in the lung. On computed tomography (CT) scans, both nodules were spiculated. Since histological diagnosis could not be obtained by bronchoscopic examination or CT-guided needle biopsy, they underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Histological examination of the resected material revealed that both nodules were composed of lymph node. Intrapulmonary lymph node has until recently been assigned no clinical significance; however, differential diagnosis of this lesion from lung cancers and other metastatic tumors is now clinically important. Copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
KW - Intrapulmonary lymph node
KW - Solitary pulmonary nodule
KW - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5002(98)00019-1
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5002(98)00019-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 9733055
AN - SCOPUS:0031872128
VL - 20
SP - 203
EP - 209
JO - Lung Cancer
JF - Lung Cancer
SN - 0169-5002
IS - 3
ER -