A rare case of primary synovial sarcoma of lung

Synovial sarcoma of lung is a very rare tumor accounting for 0.5% of all primary lung malignancy. It presents clinically with cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, or hemoptysis, with a mass lesion on X-ray and computerized tomography scan. Diagnosis is made by histopathology and immunohistochemis...

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Veröffentlicht in:Lung India 2017-11, Vol.34 (6), p.545-547
Hauptverfasser: Rajeev, L K, Patidar, Rajesh, Babu, Govind, Suresh Babu, M C, Lokesh, K N, Patil Okaly, Geeta V
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Zusammenfassung:Synovial sarcoma of lung is a very rare tumor accounting for 0.5% of all primary lung malignancy. It presents clinically with cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, or hemoptysis, with a mass lesion on X-ray and computerized tomography scan. Diagnosis is made by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Here, we report a case of 48-year-old male, who presented with right-sided chest pain, cough with blood-tinged sputum, and found to have primary pulmonary synovial sarcoma of lung.
ISSN:0970-2113
0974-598X
DOI:10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_7_17