Table 1 Clinical characteristics of 26 pulmonary SH patients
From: Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma: a unique epithelial neoplasm of the lung (report of 26 cases)
Characteristics | Cases ( n) | Characteristics | Cases ( n) |
|---|---|---|---|
Symptoms | Lesion location | ||
Cough | 11 | Left upper lobe | 3 |
Sputum | 11 | Left lower lobe | 5 |
Hemoptysis | 8 | Right middle lobe | 9 |
Dyspnea | 4 | Right left lobe | 6 |
Chest pain | 4 | Right middle and lower mediastinal | 1 |
Asymptomatic | 9 | Left upper and lower lobes | 1 |
Characteristics on imaging examinations | Bilateral lower lobes | 1 | |
Mass | 17 | Intraoperative frozen biopsy | |
Nodule | 9 | Pulmonary SH | 20 |
Enhanced CT scans | Hamartoma | 1 | |
Not done | 15 | Adenocarcinoma | 3 |
Mildly enhanced | 5 | Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma | 1 |
Significantly enhanced | 1 | Adenosquamous carcinoma | 1 |
Heterogeneously enhanced | 2 | ||
Homogeneously enhanced | 1 | ||
No enhancement | 2 |