Multicystic Alveolar Adenoma in a Symptomatic Adult with Extensive Bullae and Mediastinal Shift

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: The manuscript describes the case of a 26-year-old woman with alveolar adenoma with clinical and pathological features not previously reported. This adds to the literature by expanding the known features of this seldom reported benign neoplasm. It also highlights the difficulty in diagnosing this rare lesion through imaging and stresses the importance of surgical excision and postoperative histopathology and immunohistochemistry for proper diagnosis.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Surgical Case Reports. 

o   The manuscript is mostly error-free. A few minor changes (already corrected in the galley proof) are required in the text. The common errors noted are –

 

·       “pathologic” must be replaced with “pathological” throughout.

·       “lymphangiomyomytosis” must be replaced with “lymphangiomyomatosis” throughout.

·       Omission of articles, e.g. omission of “a” before “relative” in the 3^rd sentence of the Abstract, omission of “an” before “extensive” in the last sentence of Introduction, and so on.

·       Omission of “,” in a few places, e.g., after “placed” in the 6^th sentence of the 1^st paragraph of Case Description, after “air-filled” in the 2^nd sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of Case Description, and so on.

In the Case Description –

 

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “paresthesias” must be replaced with “paresthesia”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “that” must be removed.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “thin walled” must be hyphenated.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “in greatest” must be replaced with “maximum in”.

·       In the 4^th sentence, “well demarcated” must be hyphenated.

·       In the 6^th sentence, “normal appearing” must be hyphenated.

·       In the last sentence, “are” must be replaced with “were”.

In the Comment –

 

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “presentation” must be replaced with “presentations”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the last sentence, “that there is” must be replaced with “the”.

  In the 3^rd paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “epithelium” must be replaced with “epithelial”.

·       In the last sentence, “led” must be replaced with “lead”.

Author Info

Lindsay Volk Christine Minerowicz Siavash Saadat John E. Langenfeld

Corresponding Author

Lindsay Volk
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Sat 29, Feb 2020
Accepted: Fri 20, Mar 2020
Published: Fri 16, Oct 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Lindsay Volk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.03.03