PSEUDOTUMOUR NOSE

Rapidly vanishing pulmonary pseudotumour.

Answer: c Quiz A 51-year-old male ex-smoker with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis was referred for exertional dyspnoea for 5 days. He had no fever, cough or constitutional symptoms. Physical examination revealed stony dullness to percussion over the right lower thorax posteriorly. There was no pedal oedema or elevated jugular venous pulse. Serum albumin was 31 g/L and serum creatinine was 10...

Endobronchial inflammatory pseudotumour exacerbating asthma.

Primary pulmonary tumours are rare in the paediatric population. Of the benign tumours, the most common is the inflammatory pseudotumour (plasma cell granuloma). It can present as a variety of non-specific symptoms which may delay diagnosis. It usually occupies a peripheral pulmonary location and gives rise to symptoms due to its local mass effect and destructive invasion. We report the case of...

Inflammatory pseudotumour of the liver.

Five cases of inflammatory pseudotumour of the liver are reported and compared with seven individual previously published case reports. Clinical presentation was variable but often comprised low grade intermittent fever, vague abdominal symptoms, and a history of weight loss. Leucocytosis, raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and polyclonal hyperglobulinaemia were also sometimes detected. All...

Pseudotumour of the scapula.

Inflammatory pseudotumour of spleen.

A case of inflammatory pseudotumour of spleen in which plasma cells were the predominant cell type, is described. It presented as multiple nodules in the spleen of a 37 year old woman who died of myocardial infarction, and was an incidental finding at necropsy. Plasma cells were the dominant cell type, and the admixture of other cells within the mass and the lack of a monotypic light chain/immu...