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Irfan Ismail Ayub1, Thanka Johnson2
1Pulmonary Medicine, Sri Ramachandra University Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
A 64-year-old manpresented with non-productive cough and dyspnoea and was evaluated and diagnosed to have a left lung mass on CT of the chest. A transthoracic needle biopsy under CT guidance revealed necrotic tissue on histopathology and was inconclusive. Positron emission tomography scan revealed a fluoro-deoxyglucose-avid left lung mass with a left upper lobe luminal cut-off. A flexible video bronchoscopy was performed and revealed left upper lobe complete obstruction with an endoluminal plug which was removed in piecemeal fashion, and deeper biopsies were taken from the lingula. Histopathology revealed underlying adenocarcinoma colonised by aspergillosis. This case serves to remind us of the possibility of missing underlying malignancy when taking superficial biopsies of clearly visualised endobronchial necrotic tissue and the need for debulking it to a reasonable extent and to take deeper biopsies in order to not miss a possible underlying malignancy.
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