I don’t think I’ve ever had lung cancer as pneumonia. It was a busy day, but I still have to say something after the fatigue. Although the age and gender of these two cases were different, and the size of the lesions were different, 12mm in one case and 50mm in the other, they both had semi-solid GGO in the lung, and both had been wrongly diagnosed as “pneumonia”. The intraoperative pathology was invariably “adenocarcinoma of the lung”.
In adults with “pneumonia”, especially when GGO is found in the lungs on physical examination, it is important to be cautious and to see a thoracic surgeon and be sure to review the case.