Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report

Spindle cell carcinoma is a rare pulmonary malignancy. The prognosis and treatments are unclear, with limited literature available. Here, we report a man who underwent bronchoscopy with an endobronchial biopsy after complaining of dyspnea on exertion. Computed tomography (CT) chest showed a 10 x 3 c...

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Autores principales: Khan, Salman, Dahal, Binita, Siddiqui, Faraz, Norville, Kim J, Karki, Apurwa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6649890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31355096
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4737
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author Khan, Salman
Dahal, Binita
Siddiqui, Faraz
Norville, Kim J
Karki, Apurwa
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description Spindle cell carcinoma is a rare pulmonary malignancy. The prognosis and treatments are unclear, with limited literature available. Here, we report a man who underwent bronchoscopy with an endobronchial biopsy after complaining of dyspnea on exertion. Computed tomography (CT) chest showed a 10 x 3 cm mass in the right upper lobe. Biopsy revealed spindle cell carcinoma, and he was referred to hematology for chemotherapy. He was lost to follow-up recently.
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spelling pubmed-66498902019-07-28 Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report Khan, Salman Dahal, Binita Siddiqui, Faraz Norville, Kim J Karki, Apurwa Cureus Internal Medicine Spindle cell carcinoma is a rare pulmonary malignancy. The prognosis and treatments are unclear, with limited literature available. Here, we report a man who underwent bronchoscopy with an endobronchial biopsy after complaining of dyspnea on exertion. Computed tomography (CT) chest showed a 10 x 3 cm mass in the right upper lobe. Biopsy revealed spindle cell carcinoma, and he was referred to hematology for chemotherapy. He was lost to follow-up recently. Cureus 2019-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6649890/ /pubmed/31355096 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4737 Text en Copyright © 2019, Khan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khan, Salman
Dahal, Binita
Siddiqui, Faraz
Norville, Kim J
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Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title_full Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title_short Pulmonary Spindle Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report
title_sort pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma: a rare case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6649890/
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