Table 1 Summary of cases of unilateral absence of pulmonary artery accompanied by lung cancer
Case | Author/year | Age/sex | Symptoms | UAPA | Lung cancer Location | Radiology findings | Treatment | Surgical findings | Pathology findings | Postoperative complications | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mass | UAPA | Other findings | Collateral vessels | Other findings | |||||||||
1 | Mancebo A /1975 [6] | 49/F | Asymptomatic | Right | Right upper lobe | √ | √ | None | Mediastinoscopy, without thoracotomy or lung biopsy | None | Enlarged lymph nodes in mediastinum | Undifferentiated metastatic carcinoma of lymph nodes | None |
2 | Roman J/1995 [7] | 54/M | Fever, chills, shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, brown sputum | Left | Left lower lobe | √ | √ | None | Left pneumonectomy | √ | A hypoplastic left lung | Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma | None |
3 | Ito M /2010 [8] | 57/M | Asymptomatic * | Left | Right middle/lower lobe | √ | √ | None | Radiotherapy without surgery | Not available | Not available | Adenocarcinoma | None |
4 | Wozniak CJ /2011 [9] | 67/F | Asymptomatic | Left | Left upper lobe | √ | None | Right-sided aortic arch | Resection of the left upper lobe | √ | Heavy pleural adhesions | Squamous cell carcinoma | None |
5 | George/2015 [10] | 50/F | Episodes of recurrent hemoptysis, shortness of breath | Right | Right, three lobes | √ multiple | √ | Emphysema | Right pneumonectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection | √ | Bullous changes, fibrous tissue at the hilum | Four adenocarcinomas two in situ adenocarcinomas. | Transient atrial fibrillation, treated medically |
6 | Yui Watanabe/2015 [11] | 76/F | Asymptomatic | Right | Right lower lobe | √ | √ | None | Right lower lobe resection | √ | A bloodless funicular structure | Not available | None |
7 | Zhang LZ/2016 [12] | 60/F | Asymptomatic | Right | Left lower lobe | √ | None | Interstitial changes in right lung | Left lower lobectomy with mediastinal lymph nodes dissection | Not mentioned | repeated decreases in SaO2 during one-lung ventilation | Adenocarcinoma | Persistent low SaO2; bloody tracheal excretions; died#. |
8 | Kun Woo Kim/2018 [13] | 56/M | Asymptomatic | Left | Right lower lobe | √ | √ | Hypertrophic bronchial arteries | Right lower lobectomy | Not mentioned | None | Adenocarcinoma | Dyspnea gradually improved. |
9 | Present case | 56/M | Intermittent left chest pain | Left | Left lower lobe | √ | √ | Cavity, right-sided aortic arch emphysema; lymphadenopathy | Left pneumonectomy | √ | None | Squamous cell carcinoma | None |