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Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity

A 38-year-old lady presented with mild fever and dry cough of 1 week duration. Her chest X-ray showed right middle lobe collapse and consolidation. CT thorax revealed a mass in the right middle lobe. Subsequent bronchoscopy showed a growth completely occluding the right middle lobe bronchus and exte...

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Autores principales: Belgod, Sujay R., Reddy, Rajashekara H.V., Kumar, Suma P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv012
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author Belgod, Sujay R.
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description A 38-year-old lady presented with mild fever and dry cough of 1 week duration. Her chest X-ray showed right middle lobe collapse and consolidation. CT thorax revealed a mass in the right middle lobe. Subsequent bronchoscopy showed a growth completely occluding the right middle lobe bronchus and extending proximally into bronchus intermedius. Right bilobectomy (middle and lower lobes) with lymphadenectomy was performed. All the histomorphological features were suggestive of a low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC). MEC is one of the very rare neoplasms of the lung comprising <1% of all lung tumours. Low-grade MEC has a better prognosis than high-grade tumour, the latter being similar to that of non-small-cell lung carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-43700182015-05-18 Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity Belgod, Sujay R. Reddy, Rajashekara H.V. Kumar, Suma P. Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports A 38-year-old lady presented with mild fever and dry cough of 1 week duration. Her chest X-ray showed right middle lobe collapse and consolidation. CT thorax revealed a mass in the right middle lobe. Subsequent bronchoscopy showed a growth completely occluding the right middle lobe bronchus and extending proximally into bronchus intermedius. Right bilobectomy (middle and lower lobes) with lymphadenectomy was performed. All the histomorphological features were suggestive of a low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC). MEC is one of the very rare neoplasms of the lung comprising <1% of all lung tumours. Low-grade MEC has a better prognosis than high-grade tumour, the latter being similar to that of non-small-cell lung carcinoma. Oxford University Press 2015-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4370018/ /pubmed/25988080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv012 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title_full Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title_fullStr Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title_full_unstemmed Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title_short Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
title_sort mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung: a rare entity
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv012
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