Author/Authors :
Gönlügür, Tanseli Çanakkale State Hospital - Department of Chest Diseases, Turkey , Sapmaz, Feride Başkent University - Medical School - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Turkey , Gönlügür, Ugur Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University - Medical School - Department of Chest Diseases, Turkey , Elagöz., Sahende Cumhuriyet University - Medical School - Department of Pathology, Turkey
Abstract :
Pulmonary cavity has infectious and non-infectious aetiologies. A 41-year old man was hospitalized with a 1-week history of productive cough, and pleuritic chest pain. A chest CT scan showed a cavitary lesion in left upper lobe. An open lung biopsy revealed the presence of connective tissue within alveolar ducts and bronchioles. In conclusion, cryptogenic organising pneumonia which is a rare cause of pulmonary cavitary lesion was diagnosed. The case was presented in order to emphasize such rare causes of cavitary lung lesions in the differential diagnosis of tuberculosis.
