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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;69:1295
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Inflammatory pseudotumors of the lung

^a Hospital Sarah Kubitschek, SMHS, Quadra 501, Conjunto "A", Brasilia-DF, 70330-150 Brazil

To the Editor

Cerfolio and colleagues [1] report of nearly 50 years experience of 23 pseudotumors of the lung is a model of a well-conducted retrospective analysis of a rare pathologic entity. The suggestion, however, that there may exist two distinct clinical/pathologic types of pseudotumor as attempted in their Table 2, must be questioned. The data may simply reflect length of time from inception to diagnosis.

In an earlier report [2] taken from 10 years experience with a similar population there were two definitely invasive cases (largest diameters, 7 and 10 cm), two cases with adhesions to local nonpulmonary tissue (3.3 and 4 cm), and two cases without invasion or adhesions (1.5 and 1.9 cm), ie, the pathologic changes were stratified by size. As a consequence considerable doubt about the suggestion of two distinct types of pseudotumor based on invasion of surrounding tissue must remain, especially in the absence of data demonstrating tumor size.

References

1. Cerfolio R.J., Allen M.S., Nascimento A.G., et al. Inflammatory pseudotumors of lung. Ann Thorac Surg 1999;67:933-936.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
2. Urschel J.D., Horan T.A., Unruh H.W. Plasma cell granuloma of the lung. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1992;104:870-875.[Abstract]

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