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 c...
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| author | Manphool Singhal Nishita Yadav Pavithra Subramanian Harkant Singh Amanjit Bal Arun Sharma |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9bbbb6788aed4ea3939b3a54e52926ee2025-08-20T01:58:00ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging0971-30261998-38082025-01-01350119219510.1055/s-0044-1789244Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological FeaturesManphool Singhal0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-7203Nishita Yadav1Pavithra Subramanian2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7821-7961Harkant Singh3Amanjit Bal4Arun Sharma5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-4224Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaPulmonary 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.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0044-1789244giant cystic pneumocytomainflammatory myofibroblastic tumorlobectomypulmonary sclerosing hemangioma“air gap sign”“welt vessel” sign |
| spellingShingle | Manphool Singhal Nishita Yadav Pavithra Subramanian Harkant Singh Amanjit Bal Arun Sharma Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging giant cystic pneumocytoma inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor lobectomy pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma “air gap sign” “welt vessel” sign |
| title | Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features |
| title_full | Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features |
| title_fullStr | Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features |
| title_full_unstemmed | Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features |
| title_short | Giant Cystic Pneumocytoma in a Young Male: Rare Diagnostic Conundrum with Clinicoradiological and Histopathological Features |
| title_sort | giant cystic pneumocytoma in a young male rare diagnostic conundrum with clinicoradiological and histopathological features |
| topic | giant cystic pneumocytoma inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor lobectomy pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma “air gap sign” “welt vessel” sign |
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