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Three cases of squamous cell carcinoma associated with tuberculous pleural callosity
Eri Iwami Shotaro Chubachi Shinnosuke Ikemura Takahiro Nakajima Tatsu Matsuzaki Takeshi Terashima
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Dental College, Ichikawa General Hospital
Case 1 was a 74-year-old woman with a mass arising from tuberculous pleural callosity in her right lung. A biopsy specimen showed squamous cell carcinoma. She had radiation therapy and died 6 months after the onset of chest pain. Case 2 was an 84-year-old woman with a mass arising from tuberculous pleural callosity in her left lung. A biopsy specimen showed squamous cell carcinoma. She had radiation therapy and surgical resection of metastatic intestine tumors. She died 8 months after the diagnosis. Case 3 was an 81-year-old man with back pain. He had palliative surgery for metastatic lumbar spine, and the resected specimen showed squamous cell carcinoma. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a mass arising from tuberculous pleural callosity in his left lung. They were all nonsmokers. It was believed important to consider the possibility of squamous cell carcinoma as a differential diagnosis of a mass arising from tuberculous pleural callosity.
Tuberculous pleuritis Pleural callosity Lung cancer Squamous cell carcinoma Non-smoker
Received 7 Oct 2015 / Accepted 17 Dec 2015
AJRS, 5(2): 71-74, 2016