Primary Leiomyosarcoma and Leiomyoma of the Lung

Abstract

THE purpose of this paper is to review the literature of smooth-muscle tumors of the lung and to report 2 new cases of primary pulmonary leiomyosarcoma.Review of the LiteratureFourteen cases of leiomyoma and 18 cases of leiomyosarcoma of the lung have been collected from the literature. The earliest case report, presented in 1907 by Davidsohn, was cited by Forkel,1 who found a fibroleiomyoma in a patient who died of pneumonia. The bulk of the cases have been reported in the last ten years. Smooth-muscle tumors of lung are believed to arise from bronchi, vessels or heterotopic islands of . . .