Two Cases of Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Lung

Lee, Hoon; Sohn, Hee Young; Ahn, Chul Min; Kim, Sung Kyu; Kim, Ki Ho

doi:1986.33.4.252

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 33(4); 1986 > Article

Case report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1986;33(4):252-257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1986.33.4.252 Published online December 1, 1986.

Two Cases of Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Lung

Hoon Lee, Hee Young Sohn, Chul Min Ahn, Sung Kyu Kim, Ki Ho Kim

Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

염증성 가성폐종양 2예

이훈, 손희영, 안철민, 김성규, 김기호

Abstract

The inflammatory pseudotumor is non nepolastic pulmonary mass lesion of unknown etiology composed of a variety of inflammatory and mesenchymal cells, including plasma cells, histiocytes, mast cells, lymphocytes and spindle shaped mesenchymal cells. These different types of cells occur in varing unmbers in different areas of the same lesion, and this variability of appearence has given rise to the large numbers, such as plasma cell granuloma, pseudotumor, histiocytoma, xanthoma, fibroxanthoma , solitary mast cell granuloma etc. The author report two cases of inflammatory pseudotumor with the brief review of references