Calcified pulmonary nodules

Multiple calcified nodules.

1. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (RJ) Brasil. 2. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. 3. Faculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis, Petrópolis (RJ) Brasil. 4. Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. 5. Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. A 22-year-old male patient previously diagno...

Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma accompanied by bilateral multiple calcified nodules in lung

Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH) is a rare vascular tumor. It can present either as one solitary nodule or bilateral multiple nodules, usually without calcification. We describe here an unusual case of PEH in a 42-year-old female with a 6.0 cm dominant mass along with bilateral multiple calcified small nodules measuring 0.2-1.0 cm in diameter with a 25-year plus followup history...

Significance of non-calcified pulmonary nodules in patients with extrapulmonary cancers.

BACKGROUND This study sought to determine the rate and patterns of malignancy in patients with extrapulmonary cancers and non-calcified pulmonary nodules, and to develop a statistical model to guide clinicians regarding choice of patients for diagnostic biopsy. METHOD The medical records of 151 patients evaluated at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between January 1999 and December ...

LUNG CANCER Significance of non-calcified pulmonary nodules in patients with extrapulmonary cancers

Background: This study sought to determine the rate and patterns of malignancy in patients with extrapulmonary cancers and non-calcified pulmonary nodules, and to develop a statistical model to guide clinicians regarding choice of patients for diagnostic biopsy. Method: The medical records of 151 patients evaluated at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between January 1999 and December ...

Calcified pulmonary tumour with dyspnoea.