A 53-Year-Old Man With a Bronchial Mass and Multiple Bone Lesions

Sujith V Cherian; Rosa M Estrada-Y-Martin; Shahreen Billah; Annikka Weissferdt

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2017.06.018

A 53-Year-Old Man With a Bronchial Mass and Multiple Bone Lesions

Chest. 2017 Nov;152(5):e115-e119. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.06.018.

Authors

Sujith V Cherian¹, Rosa M Estrada-Y-Martin², Shahreen Billah³, Annikka Weissferdt⁴

Affiliations

¹ Divisions of Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX. Electronic address: sujithvcherian@gmail.com.
² Divisions of Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX.
⁴ Department of Pathology, The University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

PMID: 29126536
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.06.018

Abstract

A 53-year-old man was admitted with complaints of back pain of 3 months' duration along with numbness and weakness in his left upper and lower extremities. He denied any respiratory complaints or anorexia but did report an 11 kg weight loss over the last 3 months. He had no other significant medical history and denied any history of cigarette smoking or recreational drug use. Family history was significant for prostate cancer in his father.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Bronchoscopy
Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / diagnosis
Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / secondary*
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Image-Guided Biopsy
Lumbar Vertebrae*
Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Metastasis
Spinal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Spinal Neoplasms / secondary*
Thoracic Vertebrae*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed