Weekly Chest CasesArchive of Old Cases

Case No : 816 Date 2013-06-17

  • Courtesy of Song Soo Kim / Chungnam National University College of Medicine
  • Age/Sex 53 / M
  • Chief ComplaintChest PA abnormality on health check-up
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma, low grade
Radiologic Findings
Fig 1. Chest PA shows a prominent and hazy hilar opacity, right.
Fig 2-5. CT scans show an enhancing endobronchial soft tissue mass (2.5cm) in right main bronchus and associated distal obstructive pneumonitis in RUL.
Fig 6. PET-CT shows a mildly increased glucose metabolism (SUV 3.2).

Bronchoscopy

Brief Review
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
-Arise from the minor salivary glands in the tracheobronchial tree
-Classified as either low grade or high grade: Basis on histologic criteria
-Age: nearly one-half, under 30 years old
-Location: mostly in the lobar or segmental bronchi rather than the trachea or main bronchus
-Intraluminal nodule: branching features of the airway
-D/DX: 1. Adenoid cystic carcinoma, 2. Squamous cell carcinoma, 3. Metastasis
References
Park CM, Goo JM, et al. Tumors in the trachebronchial tree: CT and FDG PET features. Radiographics 2009; 29:55-71
Keywords
airway, lung, Malignant tumor,

No. of Applicants : 72

▶ Correct Answer : 2/72,  2.8%
  • - IRCCS Istituto Oncologico - Bari , Italy Carlo Florio
  • - Fukuyama City Hospital , Japan Mayu Uka
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 18/72,  25.0%
  • - University of British Columbia , Canada Amr Ajlan
  • - Chonnam National University Hospital , Korea (South) Jung hyun Kim
  • - Konkuk university hospital , Korea (South) Jeong Geun Yi
  • - GHICL , France manuel toledano
  • - Oita University, Faculty of Medicine , Japan Fumito Okada
  • - clinique de SAVOIE , France, Metropolitan gay-depassier philippe
  • - Korea university anam hospital , Korea (South) Sung-Hye You
  • - Onomichi municipal hospital , Japan Hirofumi Mifune
  • - SAISEIKAI KURIHASHI HOSPITAL , Japan YASUO OOKUBO
  • - McGill University Health Center , Canada Alexandre Semionov
  • - Myongji hospital , Korea (South) Ji Ye Lee
  • - Kizawa Memorial Hospital , Japan Yo Kaneko
  • - Northern Yokohama Showa university , Japan Kota Watanabe
  • - Kyoto University , Japan Akihiko Sakata
  • - CLINIQUE STE CLOTILDE , Reunion patrick MASCAREL
  • - Deptt of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging, PGIMER chandigarh , India Ram Galwa
  • - Private sector , Greece Vasilios Tzilas
  • - Kyungpook National University Hospital , Korea (South) Jaekwang Lim
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