A rare pleural mucinous cystadenocarcinoma mimicking loculated empyema initially: A case report

Abstract

We report a case of pleural mucinous cystadenocarcinoma which was mistaken to be a loculated empyema on chest CT. To the best of our knowledge, this entity has never been previously reported in literature.

Keywords

• colloid adenocarcinoma
• mucinous neoplasm
• pleura
• pleuropulmonary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma
• pulmonary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma