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CASE REPORT
A surgically treated pulmonary sclerosing haemangioma that clinically and radiologically mimicked a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm
  1. Keiji Yamanashi,
  2. Tsuyoshi Shoji,
  3. Yuichiro Ueda,
  4. Cheng-long Huang
  1. Respiratory Disease Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Keiji Yamanashi, jiike6180{at}yahoo.co.jp

Summary

We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a surgically treated pulmonary sclerosing haemangioma that clinically and radiologically mimicked a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm. She underwent intravenous thrombolytic therapy because of acute pulmonary embolism in the bilaterally segmental arteries. The pulmonary embolism had almost disappeared except for a nodular lesion in the middle lobe branch of the pulmonary artery, and a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm with thrombus was suspected in the CT image. The patient underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic middle lobectomy. The final pathological diagnosis was sclerosing haemangioma. She had experienced no recurrence for 1 year after surgery, and we continue to take great care during her follow-up.

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