Case reportNodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Lung: A Very Rare Disease Entity
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In 1983, Kradin and Mark [4] first suggested the term nodular lymphoid hyperplasia, which is thought to be a benign lesion consisting of a reactive lymphoid proliferation. The cause of NLH is unclear. NLH has recently been recognized in the histologic typing of lung and pleural tumors by the WHO [3]. NLH can develop at a wide variety of sites other than the lung [5]. Although NLH has been considered to be a synonym of “pseudolymphoma,” as initially proposed by Saltzstein in 1963 [2],
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