Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma with metastasis to the mediastinal lymph node.
During a routine health care evaluation, an abnormal shadow was detected in the chest roentgenogram of a 35-year-old man. Chest computed tomography scanning showed a nodule, approximately 3 cm in diameter, in the left S6 pulmonary segment with surrounding infiltration. Bronchoscopy revealed obstruction of the left B6c bronchus by a tumor, for which biopsy was done but no definitive histologic diagnosis could be made. Then, left lower lobectomy was performed, and the tumor was diagnosed as a pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma. A mediastinal lymph node (no. 7) showed some metastatic tumor cells. As lymph node metastasis from pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma is very rare, we herein report the details of our case.
Katakura
Hiromichi
H
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Sato
Manami
M
Tanaka
Fumihiro
F
Sakai
Hiroaki
H
Bando
Toru
T
Hasegawa
Seiki
S
Nakashima
Yasuaki
Y
Wada
Hiromi
H
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D047868:Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma / Q000556:secondary*