A phantom tumour of the lung in a patient with heart failure was misdiagnosed as a lung mass
Aseelah Qadmour, Harris Poolakundan, Feroz Jenner Poolakundan, Mohamed Elgara · 2025
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Description
Aseelah Qadmour and co-authors present a 2025 case of a lung shadow that looked like a tumor but was fluid. Such phantom tumors form when fluid gathers inside a lung fissure, often in heart failure, and they can mimic cancer on a scan.
Their patient was a man in his seventies with a cough, chest pain, and breathlessness over ten days. His chest film showed a round, dense mass, yet a heart scan found a badly weakened heart. After water pills and fluid limits, the mass vanished from the follow up film within a week. The authors stress treating the heart failure first, before costly or risky tests chase a tumor that is not there.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aseelah Qadmour, Harris Poolakundan, Feroz Jenner Poolakundan, Mohamed Elgara |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |