A resected case of solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma showing pure ground glass opacity

Abstract

A 53-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our hospital for pure ground glass opacity (GGO) in the left upper lung on computed tomography. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography revealed no abnormal uptake in the lesion. After 4 months of follow-up, we strongly suspected the lesion to be a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and decided to perform a surgery for diagnosis. Planning to perform lingual segmentectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) with mini thoracotomy, we finally performed the left upper lobectomy to guarantee the optimal margin by VATS, because the lesion was not identified by palpation. Final pathological diagnosis was a solitary pulmonary capillary hemangioma (SPCH). We herein report a resected case of SPCH showing pure GGO and review all reported SPCH cases.