CT-guided Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Mimicking Metastatic Lung Cancer: A Case Report.

CT-guided Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Mimicking Metastatic Lung Cancer: A Case Report. Intern Med. 2018 Aug 10;: Authors: Sasaki A, Egashira H, Sugimoto H, Seki K, Tsukiyama T, Ichita C, Tokoro S, Takizawa S, Kitagawa I, Teshima S, Kako M Abstract A 69-year-old male patient presented with multiple lung nodules revealed by chest-computed tomography (CT) during a preoperative examination for an appendiceal tumor. The nodule diameters ranged from 2-10 mm without either pleural thickening or effusions. A fluorine-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scan showed a high FDG uptake in the appendiceal tumor, but almost normal standardized uptake values in the bilateral lung nodules. A CT-guided biopsy led to a diagnosis of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a rare vascular tumor with a radiological presentation similar to that of a metastatic lung tumor. The present case is the first to describe successful treatment using a CT-guided biopsy instead of more conventional methods. PMID: 30101918 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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