A resected case of pulmonary solitary capillary hemangioma

Abstract

The patient was a 34-year-old man. Chest CT revealed a small nodule with ground-glass opacity (15 mm) in the right S3 segment of the upper lobe. As the nodule was suspected to be lung cancer, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was carried out for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment. The lesion site showed thickening of the alveolar septa and proliferation of the capillary vessels. The histopathological diagnosis was solitary capillary hemangioma of the lung. There have been no signs of recurrence after six postoperative years. Pulmonary solitary capillary hemangioma is a very rare disease. Therefore, We report this case with a bibliographic review.