Acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia with tumor-like shadowing located in the middle lobe, lingula, and ventral region
Keiji Fujiwaraa Junichi Fujitaa Takafumi Shimadaa Fumi Mochizukia Hiroichi Ishikawaa Azusa Watanabeb
aDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital
bDepartment of Radiology Medicine, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital
A 76-year-old man went to bed in the prone position after accidentally ingesting kerosene. He subsequently visited our hospital because of fever, left-side chest pain, and cough. Non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT) showed tumor-like shadowing with low-density areas in the middle lobe, the lingula, and the ventral region. We made a diagnosis of acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia using bronchoalveolar lavage. We need to consider acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia when CT image show tumor-like shadowing on the middle lobe or lingual segment in patients with kerosene aspiration.
Received 4 Oct 2017 / Accepted 22 Jan 2018
AJRS, 7(2): 105-108, 2018