September 10, 2025DiagnosticsOpen Access

Pulmonary Fungal Infections in a Tertiary Cancer Center: A Morphological Correlation of 160 Cases with CT and PET Imaging

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Pulmonary fungal infections were found in 38.1% of patients with a history of malignancy, complicating diagnosis.
Out of 160 investigated patients, 29 had ongoing evidence of malignancy, suggesting a significant overlap in imaging findings.
Clinical, radiological, and histopathological evaluations were conducted to clarify the type of lesions in patients' lungs.
Accurate tissue diagnosis is essential to differentiate between infectious processes and malignancies in affected patients.

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Observational analysis revealed fungal infections mimicking malignancies in cancer patients, indicating the need for tissue diagnosis.

Lyos et al. (2025) studied this question.

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