Children (Mar 2021)

Bilateral Diffuse Nodular Pulmonary Ossification Mimicking Metastatic Disease in a Patient with Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  • Pattamon Sutthatarn,
  • Cara E. Morin,
  • Jessica Gartrell,
  • Wayne L. Furman,
  • Max R. Langham,
  • Teresa Santiago,
  • Andrew J. Murphy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/children8030226
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3
p. 226

Abstract

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Pulmonary ossification (PO) is a rare finding, characterized by mature bone formation in the lung parenchyma. We report a 20-year-old female patient diagnosed with fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL-HCC) and bilateral diffuse nodular PO. The patient presented with a unifocal left liver mass and multiple bilateral pulmonary lesions, which were treated as metastatic disease. The patient received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by left hepatectomy, and bilateral staged thoracotomies for clearance of the pulmonary disease. The histology of the pulmonary nodules demonstrated nodular type PO. We present the history, the course of treatment, imaging, and histologic findings of this rare disease process that could mimic metastatic pulmonary disease.

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