J Korean Pediatr Soc.
1980 Oct;23(10):871-876.
Two Cases of organizing pneumonia in children Simulating Pulmonary and Mediastinal masses
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- 1Department of Pediatirics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 2Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 3Department of pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- The clinical and radiographic findings in two cases of organizing pneumonia in children simulating pulmonary masses are presented. The clinical feature of case 1 is chest pain and dry cough only, but the case 2 shows sudden acute illness, with pulmonary symptoms and signs, responding poorly to antibiotic treatment. Resection of superior segment, left lower lobes done in case 1. Frozen section may be diagnostic of organizing pneumonia in case 2. The pathogenesis in obscure. We have presented these cases and have reviewed the literatures.
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