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- A 54-year-old woman presented with back pain and was found to have left pleural effusion on a chest radiograph.
- Further imaging revealed a hypervascular tumor in the left upper chest with significant lung collapse, initially raising suspicion for a neuroendocrine tumor.
- After resection and examination, the final diagnosis was confirmed as a benign capillary hemangioma, a rare type of vascular tumor.
Article Abstract
We present a rare case of mediastinal capillary hemangioma in a 54-year-old female. She presented with back pain in the left suprascapular region, and the chest radiograph revealed left pleural effusion. On further workup with high-resolution computed tomography (CT) chest, a hypervascular pleural-based neoplastic lesion in the left upper hemithorax with gross left pleural effusion and subtotal collapse of the left lung was identified. F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT was suggestive of a weakly metabolic well-defined pleural-based soft tissue lesion in the left upper hemithorax along the mediastinal side. Neuroendocrine tumor was suspected. Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT was advised, which showed intense uptake in the lesion. The mass was resected completely. Histopathological examination established the final diagnosis as benign vascular tumor consistent with a capillary hemangioma.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11404744 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_29_24 | DOI Listing |
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