García de Llanos César, Cabrera Navarro Pedro, Freixinet Gilart Jorge, Rodríguez Suárez Pedro, Hussein Serhald Mohamed, Romero Saavedra Teresa
Sección de Neumología, Hospital General de Fuerteventura, 35600 Puerto del Rosario, Las Palmas, Spain.
Arch Bronconeumol. 2007 May;43(5):292-4.
Gossypibomas from inflammatory reactions to textile foreign bodies are a rare postoperative complication and are easily confused with neoplastic processes because of their diversity of symptoms and radiographic signs. Positron emission tomography (PET) is seldom used to diagnose gossypibomas and PET findings can result in false positives for a diagnosis of neoplastic disease. We describe the case of a 56-year-old man in whom PET findings showed an intrathoracic mass suggesting a tumor. The final diagnosis was gossypiboma, identified 23 years after pneumothorax surgery.
由对纺织异物的炎症反应引起的棉籽屑瘤是一种罕见的术后并发症，由于其症状和影像学表现的多样性，很容易与肿瘤性病变混淆。正电子发射断层扫描（PET）很少用于诊断棉籽屑瘤，且PET检查结果可能导致肿瘤性疾病诊断出现假阳性。我们报告一例56岁男性患者，其PET检查结果显示胸腔内有一肿块，提示为肿瘤。最终诊断为棉籽屑瘤，是在气胸手术后23年才确诊的。
