Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Pulmonary Nodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia in a 33-Year-Old Woman

  • Park, Ji Ye (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Seong Yong (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Haam, Seokjin (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine) ;
  • Jung, Joonho (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine) ;
  • Koh, Young Wha (Department of Pathology, Ajou University School of Medicine)
  • Received : 2017.08.08
  • Accepted : 2017.11.14
  • Published : 2018.04.05
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Abstract

Pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia is a reactive lymphoproliferative disease. It is very rare, which means that many aspects of the disease are unknown or have not been proven. Pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia can be symptomatic or asymptomatic, progressive or not, and solitary or multiple, and a surgical approach is the current treatment of choice. We present a case of pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia that was visualized as multiple ground glass opacities on a computed tomography (C T) scan, and observed for 1 year because the patient was pregnant. Over this period, the number and extent of the opacities progressed, but no symptoms were reported. A surgical biopsy was done and some remaining lesions regressed on follow-up CT scans, while others progressed, without any appearance of symptoms.

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