Case Report

Primary Epithelial Myoepithelial Carcinoma of Lung, Reporting of a Rare Entity, Its Molecular Histogenesis and Review of the Literature

Table 1


YearCase authorAgeSexDiagnosisSiteSiz (cm)Lymph nodeMetOutcome

1994Nistal et al. [1]55FEMTRUL2N/ANegFOD at 2 yr
1993Hornouchi [2]57FEMTTrachea2.2N/A
1995Tsuji et al. [3]66MAdenomyo epitheliomaR intermedius bron1.6AW after 36 months now died of unrelated disease
1997Wilson and Moran [4]55FEMCLLL3.9AW after 7 m
1998Shanks et al. [5]67MEMCLLL1.3Lost to follow up
1998Ryska et al. [6]47FEMCRULBN/AAW after 13 m
2001Pelosi et al. [7]47MEMT of unprovn malig potentialLULB1.5AW after 6 months
2001 Fulford et al. [8]1 : 55FEMCRMB5FOD at 8 months
3 : 56MEMCN/AFOD at 5 yrs
4 : 57FEMCLMB1.5FOD at 8 yrs
5 : 54FEMCRUL1.5FOD at 7 yrs
2003Doganay et al. [9]73MEMCLLLB5AW after 34 m
2004Ru et al. [10]73MEMCLULB3.8FOD at 8 months
1 : 54FPneumocyticRLL2.6FOD at 31 months
2; 62FadenomyoepitheliomaLLL2FOD at 14 months
2007Chang et al. [11]3; 58FRML1.2FOD at 13 months
4; 57FLUL0.8FOD at 78 months
5; 52FRUL1.2FOD at 5 months
1; 38MEMCLLL5One caseFOD at 4 months
2; 48MEMCRUL2.5shows lymphFOD at 12 months
2009Nguyen et al. [12]3; 52FEMCLLL3node invN/A
4; 54MEMCRUL3FOD at 12 months
5; 56FEMCL main bronchus4.2FOD at 2 months
2011Munoz et al. [13]76FEMCRUL2.7N/A
current case57MEMCRight bronchus intermedius1.2FOD at 9 months

EMC: epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma, EMT: epithelial myoepithelial tumor, RUL: right upper lobe, LLLB: left lower lobe bronchus, RULB: right upper lobe bronchus, LULB: left upper lobe bronchus, RMB: right main bronchus, RLL: right lower lobe, RML: right middle lobe, RUL: right upper lobe, LLL: left lower lobe, LUL: left upper lobe, LMB: lower main bronchus, FOD: free of disease, AW: alive with, N/A: not available.