Multiple early bronchioloalveolar carcinomas in both lungs.
We treated a 49-year-old woman with synchronous multiple bronchioloalveolar carcinomas (BAC). Multiple bilateral 'ground-glass' opacities were detected by computed tomography (CT). We performed partial lung resection, and the pathologic diagnosis was atypical adenomatous hyperplasia. Two and one-half years later, a lesion showed enlargement, and was resected along with some others. The histopathologic diagnosis was multiple early BAC. High-resolution CT is likely to detect increasing numbers of similar cases.
Department of Surgical Oncology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, N-15, W-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. s-hayama@par.odn.ne.jp
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