Transthoracic ultrasound: an essential diagnostic tool in a very rare case of thoracic lymphangiomatosis.

We present a diffuse pulmonary lymphangiomatosis (DPL) case in a young adult female patient in which repeated surgical biopsies were inconclusive and transthoracic ultrasound-guided (TUS) biopsy led to the diagnosis. Even histologically, DPL is very difficult to differentiate from other lymphatic diseases such as lymphangioma and lymphangiomyomatosis, requiring an experienced pathologist and proper immunohistochemistry staining. This case highlights the importance of TUS-guided biopsies in the armamentarium of imagistic techniques in this very rare case. PMID: 32905574 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical Ultrasonography - Category: Radiology Tags: Med Ultrason Source Type: research