Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma: A Rare Cause of PET-Negative Pulmonary Nodules

Table 3

Differential diagnosis of multiple pulmonary bilateral nodules.

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Metastases

Primary lung cancer (particularly bronchioloalveolar carcinoma)

Lymphoid tumors and myeloma

Leukaemic infiltrates

Benign vascular tumors (hemangioma and lymphangioma)

Malignant vascular tumors (angiosarcoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma)

Neuroendocrine tumourlets

Nodular lesions in pulmonary fibrosis

Pneumoconiosis

Infections (tuberculosis, nocardiosis, aspergillosis, and histoplasmosis)

Sarcoidosis

Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis

Vasculitis

Connectivitis

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

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Obtained with the data from [4, 5, 9, 12–14].