Journal of Cytology & Histology

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shimada General Medical Center, Shimada, Shizuoka, Japan

Publications

• Case Report   
  Distal-type bronchiolar adenoma of the lung. Findings of intraoperative cytology and review of the literature
  Author(s): Mitsuhiro Tachibana*, Kuniaki Muramatsu, Hiroki Ozawa, Jun Kobayashi, Kei Tsukamoto, Takeshi Aoyama and Yutaka Tsutsumi
  
  Introduction: Bronchiolar adenoma (BA) of the lung is a recently recognized rare benign neoplasm of bronchiolar origin. Because of a lepidic growth pattern in routine histopathologic examination, pathologists often erroneously recognize this lesion as pulmonary adenocarcinoma, atypical adenomatous hyperplasia, peribronchiolar metaplasia, or basal cell hyperplasia in intraoperative frozen section diagnosis. Differential diagnosis from malignancy is especially important. Case Presentation: We report herein a case of BA which was accurately diagnosed with both intraoperative cytology and frozen histology preparations. A 70-yearold man nonsmoker underwent computed tomography scan, revealing a 7.2 × 6.8 mm-sized solid nodule in the peripheral field of the right lower lobe. Video-assisted thoracoscopic wedge resection of the nodule followed... Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2157-7099.2021.12.605

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