An unusual cause of an incidental lung mass.
A 52-year-old woman was found to have a mass measuring 1 cm in diameter with radiographic features of a carcinoid tumour in the left lung during work-up for chest pain. Wedge excision of the lesion revealed a leiomyoma that had a similar histological appearance to uterine 'fibroids' removed eight years previously. This case is an example of benign metastasizing leiomyoma, an unusual lesion of uncertain etiopathogenesis.
Lawson
Lindsay M
LM
Department of Medicine, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia. lmlawson@shaw.ca
Tiwari
Pari
P
Filipenko
J Douglas
JD
D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*