Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis Presenting With Pulmonary Solid Lesions and Elevated Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen Mimicking Lung Cancer
Heling Wu, Tiange Qu, Shenwen Yi, Jun Xu, Fei Yu, Liang Ye · 2025
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Heling Wu and co-authors reported a fungal allergy disease that mimicked lung cancer in two thousand twenty-five. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis occurs in people allergic to Aspergillus fungi, often with asthma. It can cause airway blockage, lung shadows, and fever that come and go.
Their patient was a thirty-nine-year-old woman with asthma and a productive cough. Scans showed solid lung lesions and enlarged lymph nodes, and a tumor marker in her blood was raised, all pointing to cancer. A biopsy plus other tests instead confirmed the fungal disease by standard criteria. Steroid treatment improved both her scans and the marker level. The authors urge doctors to consider this mimic before invasive steps.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Heling Wu, Tiange Qu, Shenwen Yi, Jun Xu, Fei Yu, Liang Ye |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |