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Pulmonary malakoplakia secondary to Rhodococcus equi infection mimicking a lung neoplasm in a lung transplant recipient.

Ian C NickelJoshua A BoysErik A DillMax M WederAlexander Sasha KrupnickDustin M Walters
Published in: American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2018)
Pulmonary masses occasionally occur after lung transplantation and vary in etiology, which includes malignant and benign conditions, such as infection. Here, we report a case of a patient presenting with a lung mass 3 years after lung transplant. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of pulmonary malakoplakia due to Rhodococcus equi infection in an allograft post-lung transplantation. This case outlines the challenges of differentiating benign from malignant masses after transplantation.
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