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Volume 26, Number 11—November 2020
Research Letter

Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease from Mycobacterium hassiacum, Austria

Helmut J.F. SalzerComments to Author , Bakari Chitechi, Doris Hillemann, Michael Mandl, Christian Paar, Monika Mitterhumer, Bernd Lamprecht, and Florian P. Maurer
Author affiliations: Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria (H.J.F. Salzer, B. Chitechi, C. Paar, M. Mitterhumer, M. Mandl, B. Lamprecht); National and WHO Supranational Reference Centre for Mycobacteria–Borstel, Borstel, Germany (D. Hillemann, F.P. Maurer)

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High-resolution computed tomography and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans of the chest showing pulmonary lesions caused by Mycobacterium hassiacum in a 62-year-old man, Austria. A and B) Computed tomography scans of the chest showing a subpleural thick-walled cavitary lesion in the posterior segment of the right upper lung lobe with associated pleural thickening and a smaller adjacent partly calcified solitary nodule. Another solid nodule of 13 mm diameter was found in the left upper lung lobe. C) Positron emission tomography scan showing a tracer uptake in both lesions with a standardized uptake values of 5 (top image) and 1.9 (bottom image).

Figure. High-resolution computed tomography and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans of the chest showing pulmonary lesions caused by Mycobacterium hassiacum in a 62-year-old man, Austria. A and B) Computed tomography scans of the chest showing a subpleural thick-walled cavitary lesion in the posterior segment of the right upper lung lobe with associated pleural thickening and a smaller adjacent partly calcified solitary nodule. Another solid nodule of 13 mm diameter was found in the left upper lung lobe. C) Positron emission tomography scan showing a tracer uptake in both lesions with a standardized uptake values of 5 (top image) and 1.9 (bottom image).

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