Pulmonary Mucus Gland Adenomas: Are They Always of Endobronchial Localization?

Georgia Karpathiou; Efthimios Sivridis; Dimitrios Mikroulis; Marios Froudarakis; Alexandra Giatromanolaki

doi:10.1155/2013/239173

Case Reports in Pathology (Jan 2013)

Pulmonary Mucus Gland Adenomas: Are They Always of Endobronchial Localization?

Georgia Karpathiou,
Efthimios Sivridis,
Dimitrios Mikroulis,
Marios Froudarakis,
Alexandra Giatromanolaki

Affiliations

Georgia Karpathiou: Department of Pathology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece
Efthimios Sivridis: Department of Pathology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece
Dimitrios Mikroulis: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece
Marios Froudarakis: Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece
Alexandra Giatromanolaki: Department of Pathology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/239173
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2013

Abstract

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Mucus gland adenoma is an extremely rare benign lung tumor, presumed to arise from the bronchial mucus glands; it is a TTF-1 negative tumor, centrally located, causing the clinical manifestations of obstruction. We report a TTF-1 negative mucus gland adenoma, arising into the medial bronchopulmonary segment, lacking any relation to a bronchus.

Published in Case Reports in Pathology

ISSN: 2090-6781 (Print); 2090-679X (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Pathology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1479

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