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A “fat chance” it’s malignant: lipoid pneumonia simulating lung cancer on PET scan
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  1. B D Fox,
  2. I Shechtman,
  3. D Shitrit,
  4. D Bendayan,
  5. M R Kramer
  1. Pulmonary Institute Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel
  1. Correspondence to:
    Professor M R Kramer
    Pulmonary Institute Beilinson Campus, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva 49100, Israel; kramerm{at}netvision.net.il

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2006.068296

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    A 65-year-old man underwent lobectomy following a positron emission tomography (PET) scan showing increased uptake in a nodular lesion in the middle lobe (fig 1). A preoperative transbronchial biopsy specimen demonstrated lipoid pneumonia which was disregarded as a false positive (fig 2). No tumour was seen in the …

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