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  • Age/Sex 47 / M
  • Case Title Cough (onset: one month ago)
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

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Asan Medical Center, Seoul Korea
Definitive Diagnosis
Diagnostic methods

Excisional biopsy

Gross pathology; a well defined grayish tan and fibrotic mass

Lung, wedge resection:

- Inflammatory mass - like lesions, consistent with plasma cell granulomas

- No evidence of malignancy
Discussion
Brief Discussion

Plasma cell granuloma (Inflammatory pseudotumor)

-Quansineoplastic lesion consisting of inflammatory cells and myofibroblastic spindle cells

-Lung, orbit, nearly every site in the body

-Pathogenesis: Unknown

1) Low grade fibrosarcoma

2) Inflammation following minor trauma or surgery

3) Secondary to infection

Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor

Most common primary lung mass in children

No sex predilection, peak age in second decade

Clinical manifestation: Usually asymptomatic, cough, fever, dyspnea, and hemoptysis

20%: antecedent pulmonary infection

Three histologic types

1) Organizing pneumonia pattern: characterized by airways filled with plump fibroblasts and foamy histiocytes and parenchyma replaced with a mixture of histiocytes, mononuclear cells, and fibroblasts

2) Fibrous histiocytic pattern: spindle-shaped myofibroblasts arranged in whorls

3) Lymphohistocytic pattern: mixture of lymphocytes and plasma cells with only minimal fibrous connective tissue


Radiologic findings

-CXR: solitary, peripheral, sharply circumscribed, lobulated mass

-CT: Variable, nonspecific heterogeneous attenuation and enhancement

-MR: Intermediate signal intensity on T1WI, high SI on T2WI

-Multiple lesions: 5%

Treatment: Surgical resection, high-dose steroid, irradiation, chemotherapeutic agent

Prognosis: Local recurrence (25%), rare distant metastasis and spontaneous remission


Radiologic differential diagnosis

-Solitary pulmonary nodule: primary or secondary neoplasm, hamartoma, chondroma, hemangioma, granuloma. Pulmonary sequestration

-Multiple nodules: metastasis
Reference
Plasma cell granuloma (Inflammatory pseudotumor)

-Quansineoplastic lesion consisting of inflammatory cells and myofibroblastic spindle cells

-Lung, orbit, nearly every site in the body

-Pathogenesis: Unknown

1) Low grade fibrosarcoma

2) Inflammation following minor trauma or surgery

3) Secondary to infection

Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor

Most common primary lung mass in children

No sex predilection, peak age in second decade

Clinical manifestation: Usually asymptomatic, cough, fever, dyspnea, and hemoptysis

20%: antecedent pulmonary infection

Three histologic types

1) Organizing pneumonia pattern: characterized by airways filled with plump fibroblasts and foamy histiocytes and parenchyma replaced with a mixture of histiocytes, mononuclear cells, and fibroblasts

2) Fibrous histiocytic pattern: spindle-shaped myofibroblasts arranged in whorls

3) Lymphohistocytic pattern: mixture of lymphocytes and plasma cells with only minimal fibrous connective tissue


Radiologic findings

-CXR: solitary, peripheral, sharply circumscribed, lobulated mass

-CT: Variable, nonspecific heterogeneous attenuation and enhancement

-MR: Intermediate signal intensity on T1WI, high SI on T2WI

-Multiple lesions: 5%

Treatment: Surgical resection, high-dose steroid, irradiation, chemotherapeutic agent

Prognosis: Local recurrence (25%), rare distant metastasis and spontaneous remission


Radiologic differential diagnosis

-Solitary pulmonary nodule: primary or secondary neoplasm, hamartoma, chondroma, hemangioma, granuloma. Pulmonary sequestration

-Multiple nodules: metastasis
Keywords
Lung, Non-infectious inflammation,
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