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Pulmonary hamartoma mimicking primary bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma
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- Atypical pulmonary hamartoma
- CT
- bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma
- pleural disease
- respiratory infection
- tuberculosis
- airway epithelium
- allergic lung disease
- alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency
A 52-year-old man with transitional cell carcinoma underwent a chest CT because of a newly developed pulmonary nodule observed on a chest radiograph. In addition to the nodule, a 2.8×2.4 cm well-circumscribed, pure ground-glass opacity with air cyst formation was incidentally found (figure 1). There was no …
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