Pulmonary adenomyomas are rare adenomyomatous hamartomas. In the few cases described in the literature, these benign tumors are encapsulated by lung parenchyma. We describe a case of a 59 year-old woman with acetylcholine receptor antibody-negative myasthenia gravis and a right cardiophrenic mass initially thought to be a thymoma. Histopathology surprisingly revealed a pulmonary adenomyoma which involved the mediastinal fat at the cardiophrenic angle.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044680 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.12.025 | DOI Listing |
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