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[Pulmonary actinomycosis which was clinically suggested lung cancer; report of a case]
Shuhei Kogure1, Naoki Yamamoto, Fumiaki Watanabe
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamada Red Cross Hospital, Ise, Japan.
Abstract:
A 57-year-old man had been observed a mass-like shadow on a chest radiograph. One year later, chest computed tomography (CT) revealed the enlargement of the shadow. Positive finding of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) suspected lung cancer, and lingular segmentectomy was performed. The pathological diagnosis was pulmonary actinomycosis. It is necessary to consider pulmonary actinomycosis is a differential diagnosis of lung cancer.
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