The lung nodules turned out to be scars from an old histoplasmosis infection, a common fungal disease that is of no consequence in healthy people.
Bulky stage III includes extensive retroperitoneal nodal involvement, plus lung nodules or spread to other organs such as the liver or brain.
Serious complications include severe pneumonia, lung nodules, and disseminated disease, where the fungus spreads throughout the body.
But the liver mass necessitated a biopsy, and examination of the lung nodules required surgery that involved collapsing the lung.
Article: A 20-year-old man with fever, chest pain, and lung nodules.
Symptoms may include pain in chest, bones, or joints; cough; skin infections, lung nodules and pneumonia.
Lungs: some patients are asymptomatic, diagnosed incidentally because of lung nodules on radiographs; others suffer from chronic cough and shortness of breath.
Caplan's syndrome describes lung nodules in individuals with RA and additional exposure to coal dust.
MIP is used for the detection of lung nodules in lung cancer screening programs which utilise computed tomography scans.
The animals were sacrificed when the lung nodules were expected to be 2 mm diameter in the control group.