Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the peripheral lung: a case report.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the peripheral lung is a rare entity. We recently encountered a patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma. A 75-year-old woman showed a nodular lesion with 10 mm in diameter in the right upper lung field on chest radiography. The diagnosis was unclear, but lung cancer could not be ruled out. Thoracoscopic biopsy was performed, and intraoperative pathological diagnosis revealed the carcinoma of the lung. We enforced upper lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection to the patient. Histopathological examination revealed adenoid cystic carcinoma with a characteristic cribriform structure. Immunohistochemical examination revealed that the tumor cells were positive for thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1), this tumor was diagnosed primary ACC of the lung.
Kitada
Masahiro
M
Department of Surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan. k1111@asahikawa-med.ac.jp
Ozawa
Keisuke
K
Sato
Kazuhiro
K
Hayashi
Satoshi
S
Tokusashi
Yoshihiko
Y
Miyokawa
Naoyuki
N
Sasajima
Tadahiro
T
D000368:Aged; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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