• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.564-567
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• 1993

Carcinosarcoma of the lung is an admixture of cardinomatous and sarcomatous lesion and accounts for 0.3% of all pulmonary neoplasm. Clinicopathological features are often related to anatomical location : central endobronchial type and peripheral parenchymal type. Noninvasive diagnostic tests had a low yield in detection carcinosarcoma. Metastasis to regional lymph nodes and to distant organ is common. The prognosis is poor and the median survival is less than one year.Two cases of carcinosarcoma patients are reported here - one case is composed of undifferent cell carcinoma and spindle cell sarcoma in the male of 72 year old and the other case squamous cell carcinoma and spindle cell sarcoma in the male of 65 year old.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.241-247
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• 2004

In the diagnostic evaluation of thoracic lesions, the image-guided transthoracic needle biopsy was developed, and its role was expanded with the development of cross-sectional detection and characterization of thoracic lesions and advances in biopsy needle design and techniques. Particularly for diagnostic evaluation of solitary pulmonary nodules, transthoracic needle biopsy has emerged as the invasive procedure of choice. This article covers the indication, the pre-procedure preparation, various guidance-modalities and techniques, and complications.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제74권1호
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• pp.32-36
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• 2013

A 43-year-old woman with breast cancer who was on neoadjuvant chemotherapy presented with cough, sputum and mild fever. High-resolution computed tomography showed diffuse ground glass opacities in bilateral lungs and subpleural patchy consolidations. Initially, she was thought to have pneumonia or interstitial lung diseases such as drug-induced pneumonitis and treated with antibiotics and steroids. She subsequently got breast cancer surgery because of disease progression, and concurrent thoracoscopic lung biopsy revealed metastatic carcinoma of the lung from breast cancer. The diagnosis of suspected interstitial lung disease can be made without lung biopsy, but malignancy should always be considered and lung biopsy should be performed in the absence of a definitive clinical diagnosis.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.136-157
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• 2018

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to put the case reports of lung cancer on Korean medicine (KM) together and adopt the results in clinical practice. Methods: Researches were searched using the PubMed, EMBASE, OASIS, KoreanTK, KISTI, RISS, KISS, and NDSL. The search term were 'lung cancer' and KM. There was no restriction in year. Results: 1. Among the 48 studies, 68 patients were reported in total. The types of lung cancer were non-small-cell lung cancer (n=41) and small-cell lung cancer (n=6). 2. The number of patients who received KM therapy alone was 40. On the other hand, 25 patients were treated with KM and chemotherapy simultaneously. All case reports used herbal medicine except 2 studies. Other types of treatment were acupuncture, moxibustion, pharmacopuncture, cupping, meditation, etc. 3. Several efficacy evaluation variables were used such as tumor size, changes of symptoms, duration of survival, the quality of life, and so on. The safety was evaluated by checking adverse effects using blood test. 4. Regarding the tumor response, partial response was reported in 12 cases, stable disease was in 22 cases, 50% of the total cases, which is a high level of tumor response. Furthermore, all 11 cases with the evaluation on the length of survival showed prolonged survival than the expectancy of corresponding stage, with the stable quality of life. Conclusion: We have found that the applicability of KM for treatment of lung cancer through this review. Evidence based medicine can be realized by checking cases and applying them in clinical practice.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.73-76
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• 2002

선양 낭포암은 종양의 진행 속도가 느리며 직접 국소 침범을 잘하는 종양이다. 종양의 특성 상 완전 종양 절제가 불가능한 경우 합병증을 해결하는 치료만으로도 장기간의 생존이 가능하다. 본 교실에서는 간에 전이된 선양 낭포암 환자에서 좌측 주기관지 폐쇄로 발생한 다발성 폐농양에 의한 악성 발열 증상을 좌측 전폐 절제술을 통해 치료하여 경과 양호하였기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.900-904
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• 1992

Pulmonary blastoma is a very rare, primary, malignant neoplasm of the lung. The tumor typically is large, well-defined mass and arises in the periphery of the lung. Histologically, it resembles fetal lung tissue evoking the concept that these tumors are drived from the primitive pluripotential pulmonary blastema, but controversy also exit about the nature of this tumor. Clinical evaluation is inconsistant and unreliable as to the diagnostic determination of the tumor type and degree of malignancy. Therefore, diagnosis is usually based on histologic findings. The prognosis after adequate resection appears to be better than for other malignant tumors of the lungs. We experienced a case of pulmonary blastoma occurring in 56-year-old female. She was hospitalized for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the left lower lung field which found incidentally on chest roentgenogram. We approached the lesion though left posterolateral thoracotomy and performed the left lower lobectomy. The microscopic findings of resected specimen revealed characteristic appearance of pulmonary blastoma. The postoperative course was uneventful without complication.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.878-881
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• 1994

Primary malignant lymphomas of the lung are rare and known often to be localized, solitary pulmonary lesions, in chest radiograph. Because they are highly treatable contrast to the other primary lung cancer, the distinction is important. A 35-year old man who was admitted for a solitary pulmonary nodule in the right middle lobe. Percutaneous needle aspiration disclosed diffuse, small cell lymphoma. Bone marrow biopsy showed no evidence of neoplastic lymphoid cell infiltration. There were a walnut sized mass involving right middle lobe with a small satellite nodule at 2cm distal to the right upper lobe bronchial orifice. The histopathology of the bilobectomized specimen showed diffuse, small cell, malignant, non-Hodgkin`s lymphoma. Immunologic subtype was defined as B-cell type.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.248-252
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• 1996

Pulmonary blastoma is rare malignant neoplasm usually situated peripherally in lung and composed of epithelial and mesenchymal components that resemble the lung at about 3 months gestation. Fortysix year-old man had no symptoms and signs, but solitary pulmonary nodule was found accidentally in a routine simple chest X-ray occupying right upper lung field. Preoperative chest CT-guided aspiration cytology revealed adenocarcinoma. We had done right upper lobectomy with Iymph node dissecton therapeutically. Final postoperative pathology reported this tumor as double pulmonary blastomas(well differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma). We report a case of pulmonary blastoma with review of literature.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.59-62
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• 2014

Primary epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma (EMC) of the lung is an extremely rare neoplasm that originates from submucosal bronchial glands and has been found in the salivary glands, breast tissue, and sweat glands. However, only a few cases in the respiratory tract have been identified. In the literature, most pulmonary EMCs have been reported to have developed endobronchially although a few EMC cases have been presented as intraparenchymatous tumors. We have identified a case of primary EMC that developed in the peripheral lung parenchyma.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.145-149
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• 1990

폐의 경화성 혈관종은 비교적 드문 양성 질환으로 특이한 방사선 소견을 보여주나 조직소견이 상당히 다양하여 동결절편이나 조직생검시 악성조양과 감별하기가 어려울 수 있다. 최근 저자들은 54세, 52세, 51세의 여자환자에서 각각 발생한 경화성 혈관종 3예를 경험하였다. 광학 현미경상 이들은 Liebow등이 기술한 소견과 일치하였다. 기원세포에 관해서는 아직 논란이 많으나 최근 내피세포보다는 상피세포에 더 주의를 기울이고 있다.