A case report and review of literature of a patient with pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis and pneumoblastoma
Liu Jie, Chen Rongchang, Zhong Nanshan, Li Shiyue, Ouyang Ming
Published 2014-09-20
Cite as Int J Respir, 2014,34(18): 1361-1366. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-436x.2014.18.001
Abstract
Objective To improve the recognition of clinical features,image,and pathology of pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis (LAM) and pneumoblastoma and enhance treatment at early stage.Methods A patient with pulmonary LAM and pneumoblastoma was analyzed including clinical data,image and pathological features,and responses of treatment,who was admited in 2013 March.Three articles and one review were searched from January 1967 to February 2014 in PubMed database with "lymphangiomyomatosis,cancer" as the search terms.A case report was searched from January 1982 to February 2014 in Wanfang database.Results The main symptoms of this patient who was female and 37 years old were cough,hemoptysis,and chest pain for three months.Though she had hamartomas of bilateral kidney,she had ectomy of hamartoma of right kidney,and biopsy indicated angiomyolipoma.Spontaneous pneumothorax was occured in past.Chest high-resolution CT indicated right lung malignant disease and pulmonary LAM.The serum vascular endothelial growth factor-D concentration of this patient was 1092.61 ng/L.Lung biopsy confirmed as pneumoblastoma:immunohistochemisty CD56 (+),Vim (+),Syn(+),CD99(+/-).Through the review of literature,there was no case of LAM combined with pneumoblastoma reported.Conclusions In recent decade,LAM is defined as a low-grade,destructive,metastasizing neoplasm with the molecule pathogenetic development of LAM.The patient with LAM and pneumoblastoma was first reported in domestic and international literature.However,it is controversial and unclear whether it belongs to carcinomatous change of LAM cell or it originally includes two malignant neoplasms.
Key words:
Lymphangiomyomatosis ; Pneumoblastoma
Contributor Information
Liu Jie
Department of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases,National Clinical Medicine and Research Center of Respiratory Diseased ,Guangzhou 510120 ,China
Chen Rongchang
Department of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases,National Clinical Medicine and Research Center of Respiratory Diseased ,Guangzhou 510120 ,China
Zhong Nanshan
Department of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases,National Clinical Medicine and Research Center of Respiratory Diseased ,Guangzhou 510120 ,China
Li Shiyue
Department of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases,National Clinical Medicine and Research Center of Respiratory Diseased ,Guangzhou 510120 ,China
Ouyang Ming
Department of Respiratory Disease, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases,National Clinical Medicine and Research Center of Respiratory Diseased ,Guangzhou 510120 ,China