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Case Report

A case of pneumothorax due to pulmonary metastases from uterine leiomyosarcoma

Yoshiko Mizushina1)  Masashi Bando1)  Tatsuya Hosono1)  Shoji Ohno1)  Yasunori Sohara2)  Mitsugu Hironaka3)  Yukihiko Sugiyama1) 

1)Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine 2)Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 3)Division of Pathology, Jichi Medical University

ABSTRACT

A 44-year-old woman who had undergone hystero-oophorectomy for uterine sarcoma presented to our hospital with palindromic pneumothorax and her chest CT revealed multiple cystic lesions. After admission video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) showed the pulmonary lesions to be primarily leiomyoma, however, further examination revealed that her uterine sarcoma resected in 2000 exhibited not only mitosis but also venous invasion. We therefore considered her lung tumors as metastases from uterine leiomyosarcoma. Cases of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) due to pulmonary metastases are rare and almost half are from mesenchymal tumors. Thin-wall cavities and cysts are formed by a check-valve mechanism in the process of pulmonary metastases formation. When multiple thin-wall cavities and cysts are found in the lung, pulmonary metastases should be considered as one of the causes, and pathological specimens obtained in past illness should be re-examined in detail.

KEYWORDS

Uterine leiomyosarcoma  Pulmonary metastases  Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax  Check-valve mechanism  Cystic lesion 

Received 平成19年8月23日

JJRS, 46(5): 379-384, 2008

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