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Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volume 26, Issue 9, September 1991, Pages 1064-1066
Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Corticosteroids in the management of unresected plasma cell granuloma (inflammatory pseudotumor) of the lung

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Abstract

The case of a 10-year-old girl with plasma cell granuloma of the lung and an associated hypergammaglobulinemia is reported. A thoracotomy and biopsy were done. Total resection would have required a pneumonectomy. She was treated with an immunosuppressive course of prednisone, which resulted in a reversal of the infiltrative process and the hypergammaglobulinemia.

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Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston, Massachusetts, October 6–7, 1990.

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