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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Carlos A Lopez, M.D. [2]Maria Fernanda Villarreal, M.D. [3]

Overview

The most common cause of a lung mass is lung cancer. Other common causes of lung mass include hamartoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, granuloma, lipoma, tuberculosis, and aspergillosis.

Causes

Common causes of lung mass include:[1][2][3][4][5]

Causes by Organ System

Cardiovascular No underlying causes
Chemical / poisoning Exposure to the following:
Dermatologic No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect No underlying causes
Ear Nose Throat No underlying causes
Endocrine Pulmonary carcinoid tumor, bronchial neuroendocrine tumor, typical carcinoid neuroendocrine tumor, atypical carcinoid neuroendocrine tumor, large cell neuroendocrine cancer of the lung, pheochromocytoma
Environmental Smoking, Environmental tobacco smoke, air pollution
Gastroenterologic Gastric lymphoma
Genetic Small cell carcinoma
Hematologic Lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Follicular lymphoma, Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Iatrogenic No underlying causes
Infectious Disease Histoplasmosis, Coccidioidomycosis, Cryptococcosis, Aspergillosis, Tuberculosis, Lung abscess, Pneumonia
Musculoskeletal / Ortho No underlying causes
Neurologic Neurofibroma
Nutritional / Metabolic No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic Germ cell tumors, Teratoma
Oncologic Benign: Hamartomas, bronchial adenomas, Chondromas, Fibroma, Lipomas

Malignant: Small cell carcinoma, Non small cell lung cancer, Adenocarcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma, pulmonary carcinoid tumor, pleuropulmonary blastoma, bronchial neuroendocrine tumor, typical carcinoid neuroendocrine tumor, atypical carcinoid neuroendocrine tumor, large cell neuroendocrine cancer of the lung, lymphoma, sarcoma, vascular tumors

Opthalmologic No underlying causes
Overdose / Toxicity No underlying causes
Psychiatric No underlying causes
Pulmonary Pleural malignant mesothelioma, pleural sarcomas, pleural angiosarcoma, pleural desmoplastic small round cell tumor, pleural synovial sarcoma, pleural solitary fibrous tumor, smooth muscle tumors of the pleura, benign leiomyoma, malignant leiomyosarcoma, pleural carcinomas, pleural mucoepidermoid carcinoma, pleural pseudomesotheliomatous adenocarcinoma
Renal / Electrolyte No underlying causes
Rheum / Immune / Allergy Rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener granulomatosis, Sarcoidosis
Sexual No underlying causes
Trauma No underlying causes
Urologic No underlying causes
Miscellaneous Mediastinal tumors, Thymoma, thyroid tissue, parathyroid lesions, Metastasis

References

  1. ↑ CDC (Dec 1986). "1986 Surgeon General's report: the health consequences of involuntary smoking". CDC. PMID 3097495. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
    * National Research Council (1986). Environmental tobacco smoke: measuring exposures and assessing health effects. National Academy Press. ISBN 0-309-07456-8.
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    * California Environmental Protection Agency (1997). "Health effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke". Tobacco Control. 6 (4): 346–353. PMID 9583639. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
    * CDC (Dec 2001). "State-specific prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, and policies and attitudes about secondhand smoke—United States, 2000". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC. 50 (49): 1101–1106. PMID 11794619. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
    * Alberg, AJ (Jan 2003). "Epidemiology of lung cancer". Chest. American College of Chest Physicians. 123 (S1): 21S–49S. PMID 12527563. Retrieved 2007-08-10. Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ Parent, ME (Jan 2007). "Exposure to diesel and gasoline engine emissions and the risk of lung cancer". American Journal of Epidemiology. 165 (1): 53–62. PMID 17062632. Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Boffetta, P (Oct 1998). "Multicenter case-control study of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in Europe". Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Oxford University Press. 90 (19): 1440–1450. PMID 9776409. Retrieved 2007-08-10. Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ "Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health". Department of Health. Mar 1998. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
    * Hackshaw, AK (Jun 1998). "Lung cancer and passive smoking". Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 7 (2): 119–136. PMID 9654638.
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