A rare case of peripherally located non-bronchial pulmonary mucous gland adenoma

Ahmet Uluşan

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.15357

Ahmet Uluşan¹, Zeynep Bayramoğlu², Maruf Şanlı³, Kemal Bakır⁴

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kahramanmaraş Necip Fazıl City Hospital, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
²Department of Pathology, Medicine Faculty of Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
³Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
⁴Department of Pathology, Medicine Faculty of Sanko University, Gaziantep, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.15357

Pulmonary mucous gland adenomas are rare benign tumors, which need to be differentiated from malign lung masses. The differential diagnosis is of particular importance for those arising from lung parenchyma in atypical locations. In this article, we report a 70-year-old male patient, who had complaints of cough and expectoration for almost two years. Chest computed tomography showed a 1 cm nodule at the left lower lobe of lung. The tumor was totally resected with mini-thoracotomy and wedge resection and sent to the pathology department for a frozen examination. The frozen result was reported as benign. The pathological diagnosis was mucous gland adenoma. The patient had no postoperative complication and made a complete recovery. Pulmonary mucous adenomas may rarely originate from lung parenchyma and be seen in patients with peripherally located lung lesions.

Keywords : Bronchial neoplasms; differential diagnosis; mucinous adenoma surgery; video-assisted thoracic surgery

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