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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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A case of prolonged fever with pulmonary nodules-looking beyond neoplasms
Bitoti Chattopadhyay1, Atri Chatterjee1, Anup Kumar Boler2, Nirod Baran Debnath1
1 Department of Medicine, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Pathology, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Bitoti Chattopadhyay
Flat No. 2G, Nature's Nest, 140, P.G.H. Shah Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1118-8561.140297
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We present an unusual case of a middle aged female without other known co-morbidities presenting clinically with isolated prolonged fever and a radiological evidence of persisting focal lung opacity mimicking neoplasm. She was subsequently diagnosed to have nonspecific interstitial pneumonia on video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery guided lung biopsy. She responded excellently to oral corticosteroids both clinically and radiologically. This case illustrated the need to think beyond infective and neoplastic etiologies in a patient with persistent lung nodule. |
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