Affiliation:
1. Nuclear Medicine
2. Pathology, Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Center, Muscat, Oman.
Abstract
Abstract
Pulmonary hamartoma is the most common benign tumor of the lung and often discovered incidentally on imaging. We report the case of a 49-year-old woman recently diagnosed with left breast cancer with suspicious left axillary lymph nodes. 18F-FDG PET/CT showed well-circumscribed, lobulated, low-attenuation soft tissue mass in the right lower lobe lung with mild to no significant metabolic activity. CT-guided biopsy showed the lesion composed of fat, cartilage, and smooth muscle, admixed with fibroconnective tissue. The findings are consistent with pulmonary hamartoma. The presence of fat in a well-circumscribed solitary pulmonary nodule along with low metabolic activity helps in the characterization of the lesion, which can alter patient management.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,General Medicine
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