| Autor: |
Yamagishi, Shigeki, Koizumi, Kiyoshi, Hirata, Tomomi, Hirai, Kyoji, Kurita, Jiro, Shimizu, Kazuo |
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Japanese Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery; Jun2005, Vol. 53 Issue 6, p313-316, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
We report a 59-year-old woman who underwent thoracoscopic extirpation of the intrapulmonary cystic lymphangioma which was located in the subpleural space of the left upper lobe. A chest X-ray showed a solitary round nodule in the left pulmonary hilum. A computed tomography scan revealed a mass shadow at the interlobar region surrounding the interlobar pulmonary artery. A round nodule was recognized as low signal intensity on T1-weighted images by magnetic resonance imaging. There was biphasic signal intensity on T2-weighted images as well. Radiologically, we diagnosed this lesion as a benign cystic tumor in the lung. Thoracoscopic observation revealed a cystic lesion just beneath the visceral pleura of the upper lobe adjacent to the interlobular pulmonary artery. As this suggested a benign bronchogenic cyst, we performed extirpation of the cyst under thoracoscopy. After this operation, the cyst was diagnosed as an intrapulmonary cystic lymphangioma pathologically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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