Miliary Never-Smoking Lung Adenocarcinoma With Large Pleural Effusion Mimicking Tuberculosis
Fadi Aldaghlawi, Ziad Shaman, J. Dallarosa, Shōji Shimizu, Linlin Yang, Michael Infeld
Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases · 2023-06
Abstract
Miliary nodules are an uncommon pattern of hematogenous metastasis to the lung. Here, we present a case of 54-year-old nonsmoking woman with history of previous tuberculosis exposure who was found to have a metastatic miliary lung adenocarcinoma and a unilateral large pleural effusion. This case provides an example of an uncommon constellation of radiographic findings that were shown to be due to metastatic lung adenocarcinoma.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Miliary tuberculosis
- Pleural effusion
- Lung
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adenocarcinoma of the lung
- Pathology
- Tuberculosis
- Effusion