A case of pulmonary foreign body granuloma formation after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma

Saori Murata; Morio Nakamura; Shinji Sasada; Keisuke Kirita; Kota Ishioka; Saeko Takahashi; Yusuke Usui; Yumi Tsuchiya; Reishi Seki

doi:10.1002/rcr2.863

A case of pulmonary foreign body granuloma formation after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma

Respirol Case Rep. 2021 Oct 13;9(11):e0863. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.863. eCollection 2021 Nov.

Authors

Saori Murata¹, Morio Nakamura^{1

2}, Shinji Sasada¹, Keisuke Kirita¹, Kota Ishioka¹, Saeko Takahashi¹, Yusuke Usui¹, Yumi Tsuchiya¹, Reishi Seki³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital Tokyo Japan.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine National Hospital Organization Kanagawa Hospital Hadano Japan.
³ Department of Diagnostic Pathology Tokyo Saiseikai Central Hospital Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

We experienced a case of pulmonary foreign body granuloma diagnosed by bronchoscopy in a patient with multiple lung lesions after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma. We speculate that the lesions may be caused by transarterial migration of the materials used for TACE.

Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma; pulmonary foreign body granuloma; transcatheter arterial chemoembolization.