JOPIC
Journal of Pulmonology and Intensive Care

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Lung cancer in a welder: case report
Abstract
There are more than one million deaths due to lung cancer every year. Occupational exposure is thought to be responsible for 10% of lung cancer cases. A 51-year-old male patient applied to our clinic with complaints of weakness and rapid fatigue that have been going on for 1 month. In his professional history, it was learned that he has been working as welder for 24 years. On the thoracic computed tomography, a nodular lesion of approximately 5 cm in size with irregular borders and approximately 1.7 cm in size with irregular borders in the anterior left upper lobe, surrounding the hilar vascular structures, was observed in the left hilar region. On the PET-CT scan, there was intense metabolic activity uptake in interactions in cells. Biopsy taken from the endobronchial lesion detected in fiberoptic bronchoscopy was reported as adenocarcinoma. Here, we presented a occupatşonal lung cancer case related to the welding fumes.

Keywords : Welding, pneumoconiosis, malignancy

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Article available in :
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2023
Page : 46-48
https://doi.org/10.51271/JOPIC-0011
Article Information
Received : 17 Nis 2023
Accepted : 27 Nis 2023
Published : 22 May 2023
Corresponding Author :

Serhat Özgün: Department of Occupational Diseases Training, Ankara Atatürk Sanatorium Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey

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Citation : Özgün S, Sarı G, Koyuncu A, Şimşek C, Demirağ F. Lung cancer in a welder; case report. J Pulmonol Intens Care. 2023;1(2):46-48.

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