Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features
Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma is a rare benign neoplasm typically seen in middle-aged women. The exact preoperative diagnosis is quite challenging considering its nonspecific clinical and radiologic features along with complex histology. Moreover, obtaining an exact histopathological diagnosis can be difficult especially with the small biopsy specimens. Most patients are generally asymptomatic with incidental detection of peripheral, homogenous, solitary pulmonary nodule. It is essential to differentiate it from other mimickers including malignant lesions as limited surgical resection is curative in these cases without adjuvant therapy. We present a rare giant cystic variant of pneumocytoma, in a young male, which was initially mimicking inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor even on preoperative histology.
Authors
- Nishita Yadav
- Amanjit Bal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1457-8589)
- Manphool Singhal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-7203)
- Harkant Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-345X)
- Arun Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-4224)
- Pavithra Subramanian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7821-7961)
Institutions
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian journal of radiology and imaging - new series/Indian journal of radiology and imaging/Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1789244
- Primary Topic
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00