Medical image of the month: mucinous adenocarcinoma of the lung mimicking pneumonia

Abstract

No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. Clinical Scenario: A 60-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the hospital with worsening shortness of breath over a period of 3 days. He had a 50-pack-year history of smoking, coronary artery disease, and a previous history of a left lung mass of unknown pathology status post left upper lobectomy. He was bought to the emergency room via ambulance after being found at home with oxygen saturations in the 60s. Upon arrival to the emergency room, he required continuous oxygen at 15 L/min to maintain his oxygen saturations above 88%. He had a progressive, markedly productive cough over the last few weeks prior to presentation. He had been treated for pneumonia with multiple courses of antibiotics over the last two months without any significant improvement. His blood work was significant for a leukocytosis with neutrophilia and an elevated D-dimer. He underwent a CTA of the …

Diagnostic Efficacy of CT Radiomic Features in Pulmonary Invasive Mucinous Adenocarcinoma

“…Choi et al said that known risk factors for lung cancer include smoking and air pollution, and the incidence of lung cancer is increasing year by year with the increase of tobacco abuse and environmental pollution worldwide [ 4 ]. Blackstone and El-Aini stated that surgical resection is the preferred treatment for early stage lung cancer, and it is mainly treated by a combination of surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy [ 5 ]. Wang et al said that in recent years, the statistics of lung cancer pathological types showed that lung adenocarcinoma has replaced lung squamous cell carcinoma as the type with the highest incidence and thus has received extensive attention [ 6 ].…”