Author(s)

Riki Okita, Koichiro Yasuda, Yuji Nojima, Ai Maeda, Takuro Yukawa, Shinsuke Saisho, Katsuhiko Shimizu, Takashi Akiyama, Yasunari Miyagi, Takashi Oda, Masao Nakata

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan;.
Department of Pathology, Kawasaki Medi- cal School, Kurashiki, Japan;.
Miyake Clinic, Okayama, Japan..
Okayama Ohfuku Clinic, Okayama, Japan.

Here we report imaging studies of a patient with pulmonary benign metastasizing leiomyoma (BML). A 44-year-old woman who underwent a hysterectomy for uterine cellular leiomyoma presented with abnormal shadows on a chest X-ray. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple well-defined nodules in both lungs. Chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) indicated these nodules as T1-low/T2-high intensity lesions. Contrast-enhanced MRI indicated these nodules as well-enhanced lesions, while ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-CT revealed no abnormal accumulation in these nodules. Bilateral lung wedge resections were performed for the largest 2 lesions to confirm the diagnosis, and both nodules were histologically diagnosed as BML.

Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma; CT; PET-CT; MRI

R. Okita, K. Yasuda, Y. Nojima, A. Maeda, T. Yukawa, S. Saisho, K. Shimizu, T. Akiyama, Y. Miyagi, T. Oda and M. Nakata, "CT, MRI, and ¹⁸F-FDG PET-CT Findings of Pulmonary Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Case Report," Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2013, pp. 127-129. doi: 10.4236/ojts.2013.34026.