Abstract
A 65-year-old man was seen with an asymptomatic solitary pulmonary nodule of at least five months’ duration. Culture of a percutaneous needle aspirate yielded Pasteurella multocida. Surgical resection of the lesion showed an acute and chronic lung abscess histologically, and culture again yielded P multocida. The potential for this rare human respiratory tract pathogen to cause indolent, necrotizing parenchymal pulmonary infection in an asymptomatic patient is thus documented. The roentgenographic appearance of the lesion mimicked a primary carcinoma.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1081-1082 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Archives of internal medicine |
Volume | 144 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1984 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Internal Medicine