Urticaria as the initial presentation of early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma: a case report.
- Author:
Hui-Hui HU
1
;
Ke-Jing YING
;
Xiao-Hong WU
;
Ying CHAI
Author Information
1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310016, China.
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH:
Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar;
diagnosis;
pathology;
Female;
Humans;
Middle Aged;
Urticaria;
diagnosis;
pathology
- From:
Chinese Medical Journal
2012;125(11):2065-2066
- CountryChina
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is a subtype of the lung adenocarcinoma. Early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma is usually asymptomatic, especially in the peripheral lung. Rarely, urticaria has been described occurring with lung cancer, usually small-cell lung cancer, but no case has been reported of the bronchioloalveolar carcinoma yet. We report here a unique and initial urticaria on a patient, lasting for 6 months, who finally was diagnosed as early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (T1aN0M0). After treatment of surgery, the symptom of urticaria disappeared and did not recur. Therefore, we consider that utricaria is a possibly clinical manifestation in early stage bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.
