Primary pulmonary LELC : A rare childhood malignancy

Abstract Lymphoepithelial-like carcinoma (LELC) usually presents as a head and neck tumor with a close resemblance to nasopharyngeal carcinoma. We present an extremely rare case of Primary Pulmonary lymphoepithelioma in a 14-year-old female patient. The patient presented with a right-sided lung mass, which on biopsy revealed to be a lymphoepithelioma. There was no evidence of any mass elsewhere in the body, including the nasopharynx, as evidenced by PET CT. The IHC was positive for both cytokeratin and lymphoid cell markers. Hence, we conclude that lymphoepitheliomas can present as a primary lung mass in a young nonsmoking female, of which only two case reports are available from the Indian subcontinent till date.