Rapidly growing glandular papilloma associated with mucus production: a case report.
| Autor: | Suzuki S, Goto T; Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. taichiro@1997.jukuin.keio.ac.jp., Emoto K, Hayashi Y |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | World journal of surgical oncology [World J Surg Oncol] 2014 May 22; Vol. 12, pp. 160. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 May 22. |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1477-7819-12-160 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Pulmonary glandular papillomas are rare neoplasms, and their very slow or absent growth over time generally facilitates establishing the diagnosis. Case Presentation: In an 84-year-old woman who underwent surgery for sigmoid colon cancer, a growing solitary pulmonary nodule was identified on postoperative follow-up computed tomography. A computer tomography-guided needle biopsy was performed under suspicion that the nodule was malignant. The histopathological findings suggested a glandular papilloma. Right basilar segmentectomy was carried out, and the lesion was completely resected. Postoperative histopathological examination revealed a benign glandular papilloma accompanied by mucus retention in the surrounding alveolar region. Conclusions: A malignant neoplasm is usually suspected when a pulmonary tumor shows rapid growth. However, glandular papillomas associated with mucus retention also tend to grow in some cases, and should be included in the differential diagnosis. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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