Key result
A female patient presenting with dyspnea, bilateral multiple nodules, and bilateral pleural effusion was diagnosed with pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, mimicking mesothelioma.
Why the study?
Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare vascular malignant tumor that is difficult to diagnose based on clinical and radiological findings alone.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the importance of histopathological examination in diagnosing rare pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, which can mimic mesothelioma clinically and radiologically.
Rare mimics of mesothelioma require histopathology for confirmation; case reports leave diagnostic algorithms open for validation.
Pulmoner epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare and multifocal malignant tumor of vascular origin. Patients are generally asymptomatic. Chest pain, cough, weight loss, hemoptysis, and pleural effusion are seen in symptomatic patients. Moreover, it is more common in women. It is diffi cult to diagnose the patients based on clinical and radiological fi ndings. Histopathological examination is the gold standard. We here aimed to present our pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma patient pre-diagnosed with mesothelioma when she was admitted to the hospital with dyspnea and had bilateral multiple nodules and bilateral pleural effusion.
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Zeynep et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (n=1). A female patient presenting with dyspnea, bilateral multiple nodules, and bilateral pleural effusion was diagnosed with pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, mimicking mesothelioma.
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