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The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours
Pulmonary leiomyoma has a diverse clinical spectrum of disease. Here we describe two patients with vastly different presentations. The first case is a 23‐year‐old female with a chronic cough and no visible tracheal lesion on computer tomography (CT) chest imaging. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a sm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1088 |
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description | Pulmonary leiomyoma has a diverse clinical spectrum of disease. Here we describe two patients with vastly different presentations. The first case is a 23‐year‐old female with a chronic cough and no visible tracheal lesion on computer tomography (CT) chest imaging. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small tracheal nodule, with histopathology confirming pulmonary leiomyoma. The second case is a 57‐year‐old female with a painless abdominal mass. CT imaging revealed widespread lung ‘cannonball’ nodules. Percutaneous biopsy confirmed metastatic leiomyoma. After progression on surveillance and endocrine therapy, she was commenced on doxorubicin with interval radiological improvement. These cases highlight the clinical heterogeneity in this disease, and thus, complexity in devising standardized diagnostic and therapeutic protocols. |
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spelling | pubmed-98874052023-02-02 The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours Nair, Ajit Leong, Paul Respirol Case Rep Case Reports Pulmonary leiomyoma has a diverse clinical spectrum of disease. Here we describe two patients with vastly different presentations. The first case is a 23‐year‐old female with a chronic cough and no visible tracheal lesion on computer tomography (CT) chest imaging. Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small tracheal nodule, with histopathology confirming pulmonary leiomyoma. The second case is a 57‐year‐old female with a painless abdominal mass. CT imaging revealed widespread lung ‘cannonball’ nodules. Percutaneous biopsy confirmed metastatic leiomyoma. After progression on surveillance and endocrine therapy, she was commenced on doxorubicin with interval radiological improvement. These cases highlight the clinical heterogeneity in this disease, and thus, complexity in devising standardized diagnostic and therapeutic protocols. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9887405/ /pubmed/36741207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1088 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Nair, Ajit Leong, Paul The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title | The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title_full | The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title_fullStr | The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title_full_unstemmed | The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title_short | The panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: A tale of two tumours |
title_sort | panorama of pulmonary leiomyoma: a tale of two tumours |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36741207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.1088 |
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