Surgical management of a patient with bilateral multiple pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: report of a case.
Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH) is a rare lung disease. This report describes the case of a 54-year-old female who underwent radical resection for bilateral multiple PEH nodules. Bilateral multiple nodular shadows were seen on the patient's chest X-rays during an annual health check. PEH was diagnosed based on a video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy specimen. Thirty-two pulmonary nodules were resected through the bilateral transverse thoracosternotomy. The patient's postoperative recovery was uneventful, and she remains free of PEH recurrence 11 years after the surgery.
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, 12-1 Shinkawa-tori, Kawasaki, 210-0013, Japan, keguchi2@mac.com.
Keisuke
K
Eguchi
Makoto
M
Sawafuji
D005260:Female; D018323:Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*