Pulmonary hyalinising granuloma: a rare and elusive cause of multiple lung nodules
- 25 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Case Reports
- Vol. 13 (3), e233327
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-233327
Abstract
A 72-year-old woman was referred with incidentally detected multiple lung nodules, one of which was identified as 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-avid on positron emission tomography. Extensive workup followed, including numerous radiographs, surveillance scans and a CT-guided biopsy which demonstrated chronic inflammation only. Following a wedge-resection, a diagnosis of pulmonary hyalinising granuloma (PHG) was made. PHG is a cause of FDG-avid single or multiple pulmonary nodules and can mimic lung cancer or metastatic disease radiologically. The diagnosis is often difficult to make with minimally invasive techniques such as needle-guided biopsies which do not tend to yield the diagnosis and requires surgical resection for definitive diagnosis and exclusion of malignancy.Keywords
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