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Article: Multiple Pulmonary Nodules With Calcification.
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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A 24-year-old African American woman underwent above-the-knee amputation 13 years ago for a malignant spindle cell neoplasm near the right popliteal fossa. The resection margins were negative for tumor. Nine years after the surgery, routine chest x-ray follow-up revealed several small nodules with sparse calcification in the lungs bilaterally. These nodules grew very slowly over the following years. Several weeks after delivering a normal neonate, the size and calcification of the largest nodule increased rapidly, and the patient opted to have it removed surgically. There was no evidence of local tumor recurrence. A preoperative computed tomographic scan revealed that the ...