Open AccessPrimary pulmonary meningioma presenting as multiple lung nodules: A case report
Author(s) -
Oh Ju H.,
Cho Hong S.,
Hwang Hee S.,
Ji Wonjun
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
thoracic cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1759-7714
pISSN - 1759-7706
DOI - 10.1111/1759-7714.14270
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , lung , radiology , nodule (geology) , magnetic resonance imaging , abnormality , meningioma , wedge resection , solitary pulmonary nodule , pathology , computed tomography , resection , surgery , paleontology , psychiatry , biology
Primary pulmonary meningioma (PPM) is a very rare and mostly benign disease. Although PPM is incidentally detected as a solitary pulmonary nodule on X‐ray or chest computed tomography, it does not have unique radiological characteristics; thus, it is difficult to differentiate it from other lung tumors. A healthy 54‐year‐old man visited our hospital because of multiple variable‐sized lung nodules. He had no contributive medical history and no abnormality that was suggestive of extrapulmonary malignancy. Video‐assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection was undertaken for diagnosis, and the tumor cells were histopathologically confirmed as PPM. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed no intracranial tumor. The patient has been well and without any progression of the remaining lesions over 24 months. Here, we present the clinicopathological features of this case in which the patient's nodules were mistaken for multiple metastatic lung nodules.