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In Oral Free Paper Sessions, the first-author name was missing from the authorship group originally listed for Abstract OFP-04-012 (page S14), entitled "Differentiating primary pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix metastatic to the lung: Histological and immunohistochemistry study".
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Leiomyomas account for less than 2% of all benign lung tumors. Only one third is endobronchial in location, usually presenting as primary solitary lesions and airway obstruction findings. Literature on primary endobronchial leiomyomas is therefore scarce, with a few more than 100 cases being reported. We describe a case of a 44-year-old female that presented with bronchial asthma like symptoms and an obstructive pneumonia, due to a right main bronchus primary leiomyoma that was successfully resected using Nd:YAG laser through rigid bronchoscopy. Purpose of this case is to enhance the rarity of primary endobronchial leiomyoma diagnosis and report the relevance of laser resection in its definitive treatment. A brief review on lung leiomyomas is discussed over the text.
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Bronchial Neoplasms/surgery , Bronchoscopy , Laser Therapy/methods , Leiomyoma/surgery , Adult , Female , HumansABSTRACT
We report here on a case of disseminated aspergillosis in an immunocompromised patient with Wegener's granulomatosis to illustrate the complexity of brain imaging diagnosis in the presence of concomitant infectious, immunological and ischemic diseases.