The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
Online ISSN : 1881-4158
Print ISSN : 0919-0945
ISSN-L : 0919-0945
A resected case of solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma suspected as well-differentiated lung adenocarcinoma
Seiji TaniguchiNaoko OseYoshiyuki SusakiYuko KoboriYukiyasu Takeuchi
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2017 Volume 31 Issue 5 Pages 593-597

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A solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma is a benign tumor that develops simply from capillary endothelial cell proliferation, and affected patients generally have a good prognosis. However, chest CT findings occasionally reveal this tumor as a small nodule with ground-glass opacity, making it difficult to distinguish from well-differentiated lung adenocarcinoma. We treated a 42-year-old woman in whom chest CT showed a small nodule with ground-glass opacity (13 mm) in the right S9 segment. Suspected to be well-differentiated lung cancer, we performed a right basal segmentectomy using a total thoracoscopic surgical procedure for diagnosis and treatment. The histopathological diagnosis was solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma. There have been no signs of recurrence on follow-up examinations following the operation.

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