title: Multiple peripheral typical carcinoid tumors of the lung: associated with sclerosing hemangiomas.
abstract: This study presents a first case of multiple peripheral typical carcinoid tumors associated with sclerosing hemangiomas in the lung. A 52-year-old male presented with incidentally detected multiple pulmonary nodules on a simple chest X-ray during routine health check-up. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest showed multiple nodular lesions in the middle and lower lobes of the right lung. These were initially suspected as inflammatory lesions due to miliary tuberculosis. However, possibility of malignancy could not be excluded and right lower lobe lobectomy was performed. Histopathologically, some nodules including two largest nodules were composed of small round to spindle shaped cells with fine chromatin pattern, whereas the rest of the sclerotic nodules were composed of two epithelial cell types- surface cells and round cells. The final diagnosis of this case was multiple peripheral typical carcinoid tumors associated with sclerosing hemangiomas of the lung. For past three years of post-surgery follow up period, no new lesions or changes in the right middle lobe have been identified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 5 Hak-dong, Dong-gu, 501-746 Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Young
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yoo-Duk
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Beum Jin
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: In-Jae
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Sang-Yun
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Jong-Hee
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Nam
authors.forename: Chang-Soo
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome