A case or operative treatment of a rare lung tumor (sclerosing haemangioma)
Murdzhev, K.; Uchikov, A.; Zaprianov, Z.; Dimitrov, I.
Khirurgiia 4: 68-70
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0450-2167 PMID: 18443540 Document Number: 613835
Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung is a rare tumor, defined as benign, but it has the propensity for recurrence and metastases. We present a case of operative treatment of a 37-years-old female patient with such tumor, with preoperatively assessed clinical and X-ray evidence for tumor formation in the right lung. At the operation we found a tumor in the third segment of the right lung, resembling visually and histologically (frozen section) a metastase. A wedge resection of the superior lobe was performed. Histological examination (including immunohistochemistry) showed sclerosing hemangioma (papillary pneumocytoma). There were no complications in the postoperative period, two years after the operation the patient is in very good condition, there is no evidence of recurrence or metastases.