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

J Pediatr Surg. 1991 Sep;26(9):1064-6. doi: 10.1016/0022-3468(91)90674-i.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulins / analysis
  • Plasma Cell Granuloma, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Plasma Cell Granuloma, Pulmonary / drug therapy*
  • Plasma Cell Granuloma, Pulmonary / immunology
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use*
  • Radiography

Substances

  • Immunoglobulins
  • Prednisone