2014 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 521-525
We report a very rare case of pulmonary lipomatous hamartoma with cystic change. A 67-year-old female underwent bilateral partial mastectomy and thyroidectomy at our hospital, and was admitted to our division because of a pulmonary nodule in the left lower lung and a pulmonary cystic lesion in the lower left lung detected by postoperative follow-up chest computed tomography (CT) scan. The operation was performed under video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The cystic lesion was resected from the peripheral part of the lingula of the left upper lung before partial resection of the lower left lung, including a lung tumor suspected of being a metastasis. The cystic lesion was diagnosed as pulmonary lipomatous hamartoma with cystic change based on the pathological findings.
