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Case Reports

Pulmonary Involvement in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

^a Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
^b Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Accepted for publication May 15, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Coonar, Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB23 8RE, England, United Kingdom (Email: aman.coonar{at}papworth.nhs.uk).

Clinically significant pulmonary involvement in inflammatory bowel disease is uncommon, and presentation to thoracic surgeons is rare. A literature review found no such cases in the cardiothoracic surgery network (CTSNET) journals. We describe a patient presenting with a lung mass presumed to be lung cancer that ultimately transpired to be pulmonary involvement of inflammatory bowel disease.