Thoracoscopic management including lobectomy for a primary peripheral pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma in a cirrhotic patient.
Primary peripheral adenoid cystic carcinoma is a relatively rare type of lung carcinoma. A 49-year-old male with significant hepatic cirrhosis presented with an incidental right upper lobe nodule suspicious for malignancy and an additional imaging suggesting contralateral mediastinal lymph node involvement. Thoracoscopic management included a left-sided lymph node dissection and a right-sided lobectomy in this medically high-risk patient.
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center.
Adam J
AJ
Braze
Michelle E
ME
Collier
Paolo
P
Gattuso
Anthony W
AW
Kim
D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008197:Lymph Node Excision / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*