[Bilateral multiple pulmonary coin lesions--adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lung with 14-year follow-up].
The authors report on an adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the lung that had been discovered by chance 14 years before the death of the patient and that had at first been interpreted morphologically as a metastatic lung or as a bronchioalveolar carcinoma. The patient remained without any complaints for 13 years. Diagnosis of ACC became possible only by means of a renewed peripheral lung biopsy. An extrapulmonary primary tumour was excluded by postmortem examination. The disease pattern and the special course of the ACC are described.
Eberhardt
K
K
ZKH Ost, Bereich Lungen- und Atemwegserkrankungen, Bremen.
Hartmann
W
W
Städtler
F
F
Hartung
W
W
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology