Bilateral miliary shadowing on chest X-ray

J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2013 Dec;23(12):902-3.

Abstract

A patient presented with recent onset of increasing shortness of breath, weight loss and low-grade fever. His chest X-ray revealed bilateral miliary shadowing. He was investigated with CT-scanning of thorax. Later, a biopsy from supra-clavicular node and its immunocytochemistry studies confirmed metastasis from primary lung cancer. Primary lung cancer with miliary pulmonary metastases is a rare happening and is mostly associated with lung adenocarcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
  • Adenocarcinoma of Lung
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Biopsy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Metastasis*
  • Shadowing Technique, Histology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberculosis, Miliary / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Miliary / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents