Benign Lesions Mimicking Local Recurrence after Lung Cancer Segmentectomy

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Atsushi Watanabe Makoto Tada Masahiro Miyajima Mitsuhiro Tsujiwaki Ryunosuke Maki Taijiro Mishina Yuki Takahashi

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Atsushi Watanabe
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine and Hospital, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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We report two cases of benign lesions mimicking local recurrence after lung cancer segmentectomy. Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) revealed new nodules with abnormal uptake in the remaining lobes; they were found to be benign lesions. In the first case, the new nodule reduced during the clinical course of the patient. In the second case, completion lobectomy was performed as the intraoperative frozen section diagnosis was malignancy three years after the segmentectomy. These cases suggest that oncologist should consider the possibility of benign lesions mimicking local recurrence in the remaining lobes after segmentectomy for lung cancer.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 11, Apr 2018
Accepted: Wed 25, Apr 2018
Published: Fri 04, May 2018

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© 2023 Atsushi Watanabe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2018.10.008