Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the lungs

Andrzej Chciałowski; Izabela Toczyska; Wojciech Lubiński; Magdalena Żabicka; Naim Qandil; Waldemar Saramak; Wojciech Leja

Vol 72, No 11-12 (2004)

Case report

Submitted: 2013-02-22

Published online: 2008-02-18

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Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the lungs

Andrzej Chciałowski, Izabela Toczyska, Wojciech Lubiński, Magdalena Żabicka, Naim Qandil, Waldemar Saramak, Wojciech Leja

Pneumonol Alergol Pol 2004;72(11-12):516-520.

Vol 72, No 11-12 (2004)

CASE REPORTS

Submitted: 2013-02-22

Published online: 2008-02-18

Abstract

Authors present a case of EH as an accidental finding in 40 year old woman appeared as the presented small, solid nodules in both lungs on a routine chest radiograph and HRCT scans. There were no signs in clinical examination, no abnormalities were presented in the spirometric and respiratory tests, neither in the endoscopic digestive tract examinations nor in CT scans of abdomen. The histological examination of open lung biopsy revealed the morphology of epithelioid haemangioendothelioma. During one year follow up no clinical nor radiological progressions have been observed.