Pulmonary leiomyoma: a case report
Nakayama, H.; Kase, M.; Yamada, K.; Kunitoh, H.; Watanabe, K.; Nakamura, N.
Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 46(10): 895-898
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252 PMID: 8377322 Document Number: 419050
A case of pulmonary leiomyoma is presented. A 61-year-old asymptomatic woman underwent surgical resection of the lung for definite diagnosis of abnormal shadow on chest X-ray. Her history was hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy performed 25 years previously because of uterine myoma. Histologic findings of pulmonary lesion was leiomyoma, and nuclear atypia and mitotic figures were not found. Pulmonary smooth muscle neoplasms are exceptionally rare. We review pulmonary leiomyoma reported in the Japanese literature, and also discuss the diagnostic problems in relation to metastasizing leiomyoma of the uterus.