Liu LD, Zhang KX, Zhang HN, Zheng YW, Xu HT. Primary pulmonary meningioma and minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules: Rare pulmonary nodular lesions requiring more awareness in clinical practice. World J Clin Cases 2024; 12(11): 1857-1862 [PMID: 38660559 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i11.1857]
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Hong-Tao Xu, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, The First Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, No. 155 Nanjingbei Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China. xuht@cmu.edu.cn
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World J Clin Cases. Apr 16, 2024; 12(11): 1857-1862 Published online Apr 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i11.1857
Primary pulmonary meningioma and minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules: Rare pulmonary nodular lesions requiring more awareness in clinical practice
Li-Dan Liu, Ke-Xin Zhang, Hai-Ning Zhang, Yi-Wen Zheng, Hong-Tao Xu, Department of Pathology, The First Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Author contributions: Liu LD was responsible for investigation and writing the original draft; Zhang KX, Zhang HN, and Zheng YW were responsible for investigation; Xu HT was responsible for conceptualization, writing, reviewing and editing; all authors have read and approve the final manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Dr. Xu has nothing to disclose.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Hong-Tao Xu, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, The First Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences of China Medical University, No. 155 Nanjingbei Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China. xuht@cmu.edu.cn
Received: November 28, 2023 Peer-review started: November 28, 2023 First decision: January 17, 2024 Revised: January 25, 2024 Accepted: March 21, 2024 Article in press: March 21, 2024 Published online: April 16, 2024
Core Tip
Core Tip: Primary pulmonary meningiomas (PPM) and minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules (MPMN) are rare pulmonary lesions, which are difficult to differentiate from lung cancers due to similarities in clinical and imaging manifestations. To avoid misdiagnosis and overtreatment, PPM and MPMN should be considered in the differential diagnoses of pulmonary nodules of difficult clinical and/or imaging procedure diagnosis, particularly of asymptomatic patients. Differentiating PPM and MPMN from other pulmonary nodule diseases and assessing the malignancy of PPMs are difficult using only imaging-procedures, and histopathological examination thus remains the gold standard diagnostic procedure. Enhancing our understanding of MPMNs and PPMs and elucidating their pathogenesis will aid in the accurate differentiation of these lesions, to improve the clinical management of patients.
