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Case No : 498 Date 2007-05-14

  • Courtesy of Bo Ram Park, MD, Dong-Wook Sung, MD. / Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Korea
  • Age/Sex 35 / F
  • Chief ComplaintRoutine check
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Lung, bronchus, upper, left, lobectomy: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma, low grade
Radiologic Findings
Chest PA shows irregular lobulated ovoid mass on left upper lobe.

Chest CT shows low density mass (not enhanced) with heterogenous attenuation surrounded by some centrilobular nodules and ground glass opacities. The nodule is somewhat directed with bronchus.

well demarcated yellowish white mass near bronchus, measuring 3.3x2x2cm in size.

Micro : well defined tumor tissue consisted of mucin secreteing glands and cysts which are lined by mucin secreting columnar cells with foci of squamous cells.
Brief Review
Please refer to
Case 100,
References
Keywords
Lung, Airway, Malignant tumor,

No. of Applicants : 46

▶ Correct Answer : 1/46,  2.2%
  • - Annecy hospital, France Gilles Genin
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 5/46,  10.9%
  • - Jikei University of Medicine, Japan Shigeki Misumi
  • - E-Da hospital, Taiwan Yu-Feng Wei
  • - ANNEMASSE, Polyclinique de SAVOIE, France Gay-Depassier Philippe
  • - Doctors Hospital, Nassau, Bahamas N.B.S. Mani
  • - Changi General Hospital, Singapore Angeline Poh
▶ Semi-Correct Answer : 29/46,  63.0%
  • - Depart of radiology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Korea Bae Geun Oh
  • - Deptt. of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India Ram Prakash Galwa
  • - National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan Bang-Bin Chen
  • - CHRU Lille hopital calmette, France Toledano Manuel
  • - Sctimst trivandrum, kerala, India Santhosh Kannath
  • - Inha University Hospital, Korea Seung Woo Choi
  • - Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, India John Joseph
  • - AL swaida national hospital, Syria Marwan al chami
  • - Regional Imaging Riverina, Australia Rashid Hashmi
  • - Balabhai Nanavati hospital, mumbai, India Susheel Kumar
  • - Nirman Diag Centre, Mumbal, India Padma Kannan
  • - Osaka University, Japan Osamu Honda
  • - St Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada Owen Chiu
  • - Vital imaging centre, mumbai, India Ganesh Agrawal
  • - Department of radiology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Taiwan Chiung-Ying, Liao
  • - Balabhai Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai, India Ajay Kumar
  • - China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan Jun-Jun Yeh
  • - National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Chin Chung Shu
  • - Asan Medical Center, Korea Eun Jin Chae
  • - IRSA La Rochelle, France Jean-Luc BIGOT
  • - Ewha Womans University MokDong Hospital, Korea Yoo Kyung Kim
  • - Priti Chaudhari
  • - FRCR, Nour El-Islam Radiology Center, Alexandria, Egypt, Elsayed Mohamed Mousa
  • - IRSA, La Rochelle, France Denis Chabassiere
  • - Homs National Hospital, Homs - Syria Rami Abou Zalaf
  • - M'BIENE CH Annecy, France Mme Barrucand
  • - EKH-Berlin, Germany Michael Weber
  • - Aims, New Delhi, India Ashish Gupta
  • - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Korea Eil Seong Lee
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