title: Unilateral progressive multiple sclerosing hemangioma in a young female successfully treated by pneumonectomy: report of a case.
abstract: A 25-year-old woman had been followed for 7 years after multiple pulmonary nodules were detected in both the upper and lower lobes of the left lung on chest X-ray when she was 17 years of age. These pulmonary nodules were gradually increasing in size and, at 25 years of age, transbronchofiberscopic biopsy suggested the possibility of adenocarcinoma. Left pneumonectomy was performed. The diagnosis of multiple tumors was confirmed as sclerosing hemangioma by postoperative histopathological examination of the resected lung. The patient has remained well for 2 years to date after resection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan. akihiro@med.kurume-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Shinzo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takamori
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mitsuoka
authors.forename: Kiminori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rikimaru
authors.forename: Atsuo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jimi
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shizouzu
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed