TY - JOUR T1 - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in a patient with tracheal bronchus who presented with atypical pneumonia: a diagnostic dilemma JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2012-006990 VL - 2012 SP - bcr2012006990 AU - Nnamdi Nwaejike AU - Anju Mirakhur AU - Jacob Joseph AU - Franco Sogliani Y1 - 2012/12/06 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr-2012-006990.abstract N2 - A 47-year-old unemployed man presented with a 2-week history of shortness of breath, dry cough and fever despite normal inflammatory markers and negative blood cultures. There was no weight loss or night sweats. He was a non-smoker and had no other medical history. HIV testing and tumour markers were negative. Chest x-ray (figure 1A) showed what seemed to be a dense consolidation in the right mid-zone and lower zone. This was confirmed on CT (figure 1F), so wedge biopsies of the right middle and right lower lobes were taken via video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS). There were no palpable lymph nodes and no evidence of significant mediastinal … ER -