Author(s)

Koji Teramoto, You Kawaguchi, Tetsuo Hori, Yasuhiko Ohshio, Masayuki Hashimoto, Shoji Kitamura, Jun Hanaoka, Noriaki Tezuka

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Pulmonary infarction may present as a solitary pulmonary nodule resembling a malignant pulmonary tumor. A 71-year-old woman who had undergone the surgery for abdominal malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) with inflammatory nature presented with a small nodule in the right lung in computed tomographic images. Two months later, the nodule became enlarged and had an accompanying infiltrative shadow. We suspected a metastatic tumor from MFH and performed video-assisted thoracic surgery. However, subsequent pathological diagnosis of the nodule was pulmonary infarction due to thromboembolism. When a peripheral nodule is detected, pulmonary infarction should be considered as a possible diagnosis.

Pulmonary Infarction, Lung Cancer, VATS

K. Teramoto, Y. Kawaguchi, T. Hori, Y. Ohshio, M. Hashimoto, S. Kitamura, J. Hanaoka and N. Tezuka, "A Pulmonary Infarction Mimicking Metastatic Lung Tumor," Surgical Science, Vol. 2 No. 6, 2011, pp. 360-362. doi: 10.4236/ss.2011.26078.