title: Urticaria as the initial presentation of early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma: a case report.
abstract: Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is a subtype of the lung adenocarcinoma. Early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is usually asymptomatic, especially in the peripheral lung. Rarely, urticaria has been described occurring with lung cancer, usually small-cell lung cancer, but no case has been reported of the bronchioloalveolar carcinoma yet. We report here a unique and initial urticaria on a patient, lasting for 6 months, who finally was diagnosed as early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (T1aN0M0). After treatment of surgery, the symptom of urticaria disappeared and did not recur. Therefore, we consider that utricaria is a possibly clinical manifestation in early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310016, China.
authors.forename: Hui-Hui
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ke-Jing
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Xiao-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chai
mesh_terms: D002282:Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014581:Urticaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology