PMID: 26339444Sep 5, 2015Paper

A rare case of pulmonary sclerosing hemagioma with lymph node metastasis and review of the literature

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology
Hai-Miao Xu, Gu Zhang

Abstract

Pulmonary sclerosing hemagioma (SH) is an uncommon tumor with malignance potential. Clinically this disease is regarded as benign but extremely rare cases can have lymph node metastasis. Up to date, there have been only very few reports concerning SH with lymph node metastasis. In this paper we reported one pulmonary SH case with lymph node metastasis and additionally overviewed the clinical and pathological features of SH. A young-aged female was found incidentally to have a nodule in the right upper lung. This patient presented no cough, no hemoptysis and chest pain. Computed tomography (CT) scan indicated a large mass in the right upper lung and enlarged lymph nodes in the right hilum. The patient underwent lobectomy of the right upper lung. Histologically, the tumor demonstrated typical features of SH and was consisted of angiomatoid areas, sclerosis, papillary structures lined with cuboidal cells and sheets of round to polygonal cells. Polygonal cells in some solid areas presented abnormal enlarged nuclei and increased karyoplasmic ratio; tumor giant cells were noted; whereas mitosis was not observed. One peribronchial lymph node was noted for SH metastasis and the metastatic tissue were consisted of polygonal cells. Immun...Continue Reading

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