Esophageal diagnosis of a malignant aspergilloma
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A 59-year-old male patient developed a new 4 cm × 6 cm cavitary left upper lung lesion over a 2 months period. The patient had a prior history of a surgically resected Stage IA non‐small cell lung cancer in the right upper lobe 3 years prior. He was treated for possible infection with radiographic improvement on subsequent imaging. Further imaging after 3 months revealed an oval soft tissue density within the cavity with air crescent sign [Figure 1]. Bronchoscopy with transbronchial biopsies showed an acute and chronic granulomatous inflammation. Asper gillus fumigatus was noted on culture and voriconazole was initiated.[1] Subsequent imaging showed initial improvement and then the
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