title: Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma with metastasis to the mediastinal lymph node.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiromichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katakura
authors.forename: Manami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Fumihiro
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bando
authors.forename: Seiki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Yasuaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D047868:Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma / Q000556:secondary*