Sugio K, Kaneko S, Yokoyama H, Ishida T, Sugimachi K
Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Respiration. 1991;58(3-4):219-22. doi: 10.1159/000195931.
A 65-year-old woman had a solitary nodule radiologically appearing as a coin lesion with pleural indentation, suggesting primary lung cancer. Operative findings and histological examination revealed it to be a silicotic nodule. Despite the rarity of this condition, silicotic nodules should be considered among the causes of solitary or small numbers of peripheral pulmonary nodules in adults.