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P1.02 - Biology/Pathology (ID 614)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Poster Session with Presenters Present
- Track: Biology/Pathology
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 10/16/2017, 09:30 - 16:00, Exhibit Hall (Hall B + C)
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P1.02-029 - Pulmonary Adenofibroma with Cystic Change: A Case Report (ID 9195)
09:30 - 16:00 | Author(s): Y.B. Han
- Abstract
Background:
Pulmonary adenofibroma is a rare benign tumor with biphasic pattern resembling adenofibroma of female genital tract and fibroepithelial lesion of breast. Since Scarff and Gowar first described it as a fibroadenoma of lung in 1944, only 10 cases have been reported in English literature. It is generally detected in middle-aged patients with solitary subpleural nodule. Histogenesis of this lesion is controversial, whether it is hamartomatous lesion or benign neoplasm. We report a case of a pulmonary adenofibroma in a 77-year-old male, presented with a subpleural bulla.
Method:
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Result:
A 77-year-old male, an ex-smoker, presented with chronic cough. Chest computed tomography revealed a 7-cm sized bulla in right middle lobe. As the large bulla had a thick wall and increased with lapse of time, resection was done. Frozen diagnosis suggested a proliferative lesion which cannot exclude mesothelioma or a parenchymal epithelial neoplasm. Grossly, the tumor was subpleural cystic lesion with central solid portion. Histologically, the lesion was characterized by a leaf-like branching and glandular pattern composed of a single layer of bland ciliated cuboidal lining epithelium and fibrous stroma. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed epithelium that stained positively for cytokeratin 7 and TTF-1, and stroma stained positively for SMA and nonspecific for CD34. The patient was diagnosed as pulmonary adenofibroma and discharged without any complications.
Conclusion:
Pulmonary adenofibroma is a rare biphasic tumor that could be misinterpreted as other benign or malignant tumors. Pulmonary hamartoma and solitary fibrous tumor could contain entrapped bronchial epithelium in the periphery of the tumor, which is distinguished from diffusely distributed epithelial component of adenofibroma. Pulmonary blastoma is another biphasic tumor which has a distinctive primitive appearance of epithelial and mesenchymal components. Moreover, this case presented as a thick-walled bulla that the possibility of primary mucinous adenocarcinoma or cystic metastasis was suspected in the radiological examination. Although pulmonary adenofibroma is recommended minimal surgical resection, lobectomy was done in this case due to its diagnostic difficulty in radiology and intraoperative frozen pathology. To avoid any inappropriate treatment, pulmonary adenofibroma should be regarded as a differential diagnosis of a solitary pulmonary nodule showing biphasic appearance.
