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3. Review the existing biopsy

 

The patient was anxious to make a diagnosis and unwilling to wait 3 months for repeat studies. The best course seemed to be to obtain outside lung biopsy specimen for review. Repeat open lung biopsy, VATS, and transbronchial biopsy seem unlikely to establish a diagnosis if a previous open lung biopsy with good specimens did not. 

 

New findings noted on pathology review done at our institution indicating lung cysts with walls containing spindle-like malignant cells with evidence of hypervascularity (Figure 6). 

Figure 6. Histopathology with hematoxylin and eosin (H & E) staining. Low power view (A); intermediate power view (B,C); and high power view (D-F).

 

Which of the following malignancies has been associated with lung cysts? (Click on the correct answer to proceed to the fifth and final page)

 

  1. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
  2. Seminoma
  3. Various sarcomas (Ewing’s sarcoma, osteogenic sarcoma, angiosarcoma, sarcoma of unknown type)
  4. 1 and 3
  5. All of the above

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