PMID- 24791267
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150904
LR  - 20140505
IS  - 2327-2228 (Electronic)
IS  - 0363-7913 (Linking)
VI  - 97
IP  - 5
DP  - 2014 May 1
TI  - Solitary pulmonary nodule: pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma.
PG  - 40-3
AB  - Pleuropulmonary synovial sarcoma (PPSS) is an extremely rare primary malignancy 
      of the lung. We present a case of a middle-aged female with PPSS that was 
      initially discovered as an incidental indeterminate nodule on chest radiograph. 
      Following evaluation with computed tomography (CT), the patient went on to 
      positron-emission tomography (PET)/CT for work-up of the solitary pulmonary 
      nodule, which demonstrated mild FDG-avidity and no other evidence of FDG-avid 
      disease. The patient then underwent thoracotomy and right upper lobectomy for 
      definitive treatment. Only after evaluation of the gross pathology, histology, 
      immunohistochemistry and cytogenetics was the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma made. 
      Importantly, the preceding PET/CT, in addition to physical exam of the upper and 
      lower extremities, helped exclude the more common extra-thoracic soft-tissue 
      variety of synovial sarcoma, which frequently metastasizes to lung, carrying a 
      worse prognosis. Discussion of synovial sarcoma and PPSS follows.
FAU - Ward, Robert C
AU  - Ward RC
AD  - Resident in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Warren Alpert Medical School of 
      Brown University, and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
FAU - Birnbaum, Ariel E
AU  - Birnbaum AE
AD  - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown 
      University, and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
FAU - Aswad, Bassam I
AU  - Aswad BI
AD  - Associate Professor of Pathology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown 
      University, and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
FAU - Healey, Terrance T
AU  - Healey TT
AD  - Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown 
      University, and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140501
PL  - United States
TA  - R I Med J (2013)
JT  - Rhode Island medical journal (2013)
JID - 101605827
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidental Findings
MH  - *Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - *Pleural Neoplasms/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - *Sarcoma, Synovial/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - *Solitary Pulmonary Nodule/diagnosis/surgery
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Lung cancer
OT  - Sarcoma
OT  - Solitary pulmonary nodule
OT  - Synovial sarcoma
EDAT- 2014/05/03 06:00
MHDA- 2015/09/05 06:00
CRDT- 2014/05/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/05/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/05/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/09/05 06:00 [medline]
PST - epublish
SO  - R I Med J (2013). 2014 May 1;97(5):40-3.