Alveolar adenoma of the lung: Unusual diagnosis of a lesion positive on PET scan. A case report

Mario Nosotti; Paolo Mendogni; Lorenzo Rosso; Davide Tosi; Alessandro Palleschi; Maria Basciu; Luigi Santambrogio; Stefano Ferrero

doi:10.1186/1749-8090-7-1

Alveolar adenoma of the lung: Unusual diagnosis of a lesion positive on PET scan. A case report

Mario Nosotti, Paolo Mendogni, Lorenzo Rosso, Davide Tosi, Alessandro Palleschi, Maria Basciu, Luigi Santambrogio, Stefano Ferrero

Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico

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Abstract

The authors report a clinical case of alveolar adenoma presenting as a solitary pulmonary nodule which was positive to PET and deeply located in the lung. Few cases of alveolar adenomas have been reported in literature; these lesions are considered pulmonary neoplasms with benign behaviour, usually presenting as a peripheral or subpleural coin lesion; the PET activities of such neoplasms were unknown.The present clinical case was singular for the deep location of the nodule and its tight adhesion to left inferior pulmonary vein requiring a lobectomy. In addition, alveolar adenoma PET behaviour has been reported as light positivity.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Journal	Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-1
Publication status	Published - Jan 3 2012

Keywords

Alveolar adenoma
Lobectomy
Lung
Positron emission tomography (PET)

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Surgery
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Alveolar adenoma of the lung : Unusual diagnosis of a lesion positive on PET scan. A case report. / Nosotti, Mario ; Mendogni, Paolo ; Rosso, Lorenzo ; Tosi, Davide ; Palleschi, Alessandro; Basciu, Maria; Santambrogio, Luigi; Ferrero, Stefano.

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