Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and their influence on human health: a controversial topic

Authors

  • José Alberto Hermida Pérez Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Servicio Canario de Salud. España
  • Abdel Buduen Nuñez
  • Laura Capote León

Keywords:

nódulo, pulmonar, solitario, carcinoma, neumonía.

Abstract

Background: lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer mortality worldwide. It is one of the cancers with worse prognosis, since it is usually diagnosed in advanced stages. Early detection, in the pulmonary nodule phase, would allow an earlier therapeutic intervention, improving prognosis and survival. Important diagnostic tools include chest radiography, computed tomography, fine needle aspiration, and a large number of differential diagnoses including benign and malignant lesions.
Objective: to describe the clinical, radiological, histopathological and differential diagnoses of the solitary pulmonary nodule of subpleural location.
Clinical case: a clinical case with a solitary pulmonary nodule and initial presumptive diagnosis of lung carcinoma is described; after being studied and performed lung lobectomy, diagnosed as an inflammatory cause, pneumonia.
Conclusions: 95 % of solitary pulmonary nodules are neoplasias secondary to conditions with which a differential diagnosis can be established. The most frequent cause is granulomas secondary to infectious inflammatory conditions, following in order of frequency the cancer and within them the bronchogenic carcinoma.
DeCS: SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONIA; MIDDLE AGED; CASE REPORTS.

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Author Biography

José Alberto Hermida Pérez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Servicio Canario de Salud. España

Doctor en Medicina. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.España

Especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. España

Doctor en Medicina y Especislista en Urología. Universidad Camagüey. Cuba

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Published

2017-09-29

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Hermida Pérez JA, Buduen Nuñez A, Capote León L. Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and their influence on human health: a controversial topic. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2017 Sep. 29 [cited 2025 Sep. 3];21(5):646-51. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/5016

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 5 (2017)

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Case Reports

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