Recurrence of pulmonary intravascular bronchoalveolar tumor with mediastinal metastasis 20 years later

Tze-Ming Chen; Jessica Donington; Gordon Mak; Gerald J Berry; Stephen J Ruoss; Glenn D Rosen; Daya Upadhyay

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2005.05.010

Recurrence of pulmonary intravascular bronchoalveolar tumor with mediastinal metastasis 20 years later

Respir Med. 2006 Feb;100(2):367-70. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.05.010. Epub 2005 Jun 28.

Authors

Tze-Ming Chen¹, Jessica Donington, Gordon Mak, Gerald J Berry, Stephen J Ruoss, Glenn D Rosen, Daya Upadhyay

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H3143, Stanford, CA 94305-5236, USA.

PMID: 15990286
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.05.010

Abstract

Pulmonary intravascular bronchoalveolar tumor (IVBAT) also recognized as pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, is a rare malignant vascular tumor of unknown etiology. IVBAT is a tumor of multicentric origin and the lungs are rarely involved, with only about 60 cases of pulmonary IVBAT described in the literature. The prognosis is unpredictable, with life expectancy ranging from 1 to 15 years. We report an unusual case of pulmonary IVBAT that recurred in the lung with metastasis to the mediastinum.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Female
Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid / pathology*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary*
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed