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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maria Fernanda Villarreal, M.D. [2] Luke Rusowicz-Orazem, B.S.
Overview
Causes of pulmonary nodule may be classified into 5 categories: infectious, neoplastic, inflammatory, immunological, vascular, and miscellaneous. Common causes of solitary pulmonary nodule, include: tuberculosis, primary lung cancer, granulomas, and rheumatic disease.[1]
Causes
Common Causes
Common malignant causes of pulmonary nodule include:[2]
- Primary lung cancer
- Lymphoma
- Carcinoid tumor
- Solitary metastasis
- Pulmonary sarcoma
Common benign causes of pulmonary nodule include:[1]
Inflammatory
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- Nocardial infection
- Parasite infection
Immunological
Vascular
Miscellaneous
Causes by Organ System
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adiaspiromycosis
- Amyloid
- Amyloidosis
- Aneurysm of the pulmonary artery
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Aspergilloma
- Aspergillosis
- Berylliosis
- Black lung disease
- Blastoma
- Blastomycosis
- Breast cancer
- Bronchial adenoma
- Bronchial atresia
- Bronchogenic carcinoma
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Cancers
- Carcinoid tumor
- Chondroma
- Churg-strauss syndrome
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Dirofilariasis
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Endometriosis
- Fibroma
- Foreign body
- Fungal infection
- Gastric cancer
- Granuloma
- Hamartoma
- Hamartomatosis
- Hemangioma
- Hematoma
- Histoplasmosis
- Hydatid cyst
- Hypernephroma
- Hystiocytosis x
- Immunological
- Infarction zone
- Inflammatory
- Large cell lung carcinoma
- Lipoid pneumonia
- Localized scar
- Localized pleural effusion
- Lung abscess
- Lung cavity
- Lung metastases
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia
- Lymphoma
- Metastasis
- Miscellaneous
- Mucoid impaction
- Multiple myeloma
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Neurofibroma
- Neurogenic tumor
- Nocardial infection
- Nocardiosis
- Non-hodgkin lymphoma
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Parasite infection
- Pleural plaque
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Primary lung cancer
- Progressive massive fibrosis
- Prostate cancer
- Pulmonary abscess
- Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hamartoma
- Pulmonary infarction
- Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor
- Pulmonary sarcoma
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rheumatoid disease
- Rheumatoid nodule
- Round pneumonia
- Rounded atelectasis
- Sarcoidosis
- Sarcoma
- Seminoma
- Sequestration
- Small cell lung cancer
- Solitary metastasis
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Thyroid cancer
- Tuberculosis
- Varicose pulmonary vein
- Vascular
- Wegener's granulomatosis