Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Lung

Abstract

The first case of an inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung recorded at the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, Mo., affords the opportunity to introduce this entity into the radiological literature. This relatively rare condition should not be confused with the so-called “pseudotumor of the lung” which consists of fluid loculated between layers of pleura. Report of a Case An 8-year-old white girl was first seen at the University of Missouri Medical Center on June 30, 1959, for treatment of cardiac failure. An admission chest film showed a greatly enlarged heart and diffuse pulmonary edema (Fig. 1). The patient improved on medical therapy and at subsequent cardiac catheterization, a diagnosis of interventricular septal defect was made. On April 5, 1960, through a median sternotomy, under open heart technic with the heart-lung bypass, the intraventricular septal defect was closed. The patient did well, and roentgenograms obtained July 15, 1960, showed marked decrease in cardiac size and clearing...