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CT-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy successfully diagnosed a solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma in a 42-year-old woman with an incidental lung nodule.
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CT-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy is a feasible method for diagnosing rare solitary pulmonary capillary hemangiomas.
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CT-guided biopsy may enable diagnosis of rare pulmonary lesions; single case leaves open generalizability and practice change.
Pulmonary hemangiomas are extremely rare. Here we report a case of a 42 year old healthy woman with an incidental nodule identified by computed tomography (CT). In consideration of her smoking history and the appearance of irregular borders of the nodule on CT imaging, despite lack of change after a 9-month follow-up, a CT-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy was performed to rule out lung cancer. A diagnosis of solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma was made histopathologically. The feasibility of using needle core biopsy to diagnose pulmonary hemangiomas is discussed with the clinical, radiologic and pathological features of this case and a review of literature.
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Huang et al. (2016) conducted a case report in Pulmonary capillary hemangioma (n=1). CT-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy was evaluated on Histopathological diagnosis. CT-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy successfully diagnosed a solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma in a 42-year-old woman with an incidental lung nodule.
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