An unusual etiology of bilateral pulmonary nodules: Another challenge of hide and seek

Anam M Elarabi; Mousa Hussein; Aisha Aladab

doi:10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101482

An unusual etiology of bilateral pulmonary nodules: Another challenge of hide and seek

Respir Med Case Rep. 2021 Jul 27:34:101482. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101482. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Anam M Elarabi¹, Mousa Hussein¹, Aisha Aladab¹

Affiliation

¹ Pulmonary Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

An elderly gentleman presented with bilateral pulmonary nodules found incidentally during the workup of acute pancreatitis. He did not have any respiratory or urogenital symptoms. A biopsy of the lung nodule revealed myxoid mesenchymal neoplasm of extraosseous origin. As the patient was asymptomatic, only the increased uptake in the penile shaft base on the whole-body PET-CT study yielded a diagnosis of primary penile chondrosarcoma after biopsy. A rare presentation of chondrosarcoma in an elderly gentleman highlighting the importance of obtaining a histopathological specimen, as the prognosis of metastatic diseases is widely variable.

Keywords: Extraskeletal chondrosarcoma; Penile tumor; Pulmonary metastases.

Publication types

Case Reports