Discoid lupus and pulmonary blastoma in an elderly patient.
Discoid lupus is an autosomal disease that has not been found to predispose to cancer. Pulmonary blastoma is a rare primary lung tumor with a poor prognosis, which commonly presents at a younger age than non-small-cell lung carcinoma. We report a rare case of pulmonary blastoma in a 62-year-old man with discoid lupus who presented with chronic cough and pleuritic pain. The 5.3-cm tumor was located in the left upper lobe, invaded the visceral pleura, and adhered to the parietal pleura. The patient underwent a left upper lobectomy and chest wall excision, with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Euromedica Kyanous Stavros Heart Center, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Papoulidis
P
Pavlos
Tsonis
T
Georgios
Katsanikos
K
Andreas
Renta
R
Foteini
Karipidis
K
Eustathios
Diarmisakis
D
Emmanouil
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D059186:Chemoradiotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D008179:Lupus Erythematosus, Discoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
Age of onset; discoid; lung neoplasms; lupus erythematosus; pulmonary blastoma