A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report
Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura is a rare mesenchymal tumor, representing less than 5% of all neoplasms associated with the pleura. A 57-year-old man had general malaise without chest symptoms for 1 month. A chest roentgenogram and computed tomography showed a giant mass in the left thorax. Alt...
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pubmed-31938142011-10-16 A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report Furukawa, Nobuyuki Hansky, Bert Niedermeyer, Jost Gummert, Jan Renner, Andre Case Report Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura is a rare mesenchymal tumor, representing less than 5% of all neoplasms associated with the pleura. A 57-year-old man had general malaise without chest symptoms for 1 month. A chest roentgenogram and computed tomography showed a giant mass in the left thorax. Although the tumor compressed the descending aorta and other mediastinal structures strongly, thereby shifting them to the right side, the patient had no symptoms except malaise. The tumor was successfully resected via two separate thoracotomies. The tumor was measured (20 cm × 19 cm × 15 cm) and weighed (2150 g). The tumor was histologically and immunohistochemically diagnosed as benign. Although SFT is benign, a long follow-up period is essential as even patients with complete resection are at risk of recurrence many years after surgery. BioMed Central 2011-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3193814/ /pubmed/21958732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-122 Text en Copyright ©2011 Furukawa et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Furukawa, Nobuyuki Hansky, Bert Niedermeyer, Jost Gummert, Jan Renner, Andre A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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A silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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silent gigantic solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: case report |
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Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura is a rare mesenchymal tumor, representing less than 5% of all neoplasms associated with the pleura. A 57-year-old man had general malaise without chest symptoms for 1 month. A chest roentgenogram and computed tomography showed a giant mass in the left thorax. Although the tumor compressed the descending aorta and other mediastinal structures strongly, thereby shifting them to the right side, the patient had no symptoms except malaise. The tumor was successfully resected via two separate thoracotomies. The tumor was measured (20 cm × 19 cm × 15 cm) and weighed (2150 g). The tumor was histologically and immunohistochemically diagnosed as benign. Although SFT is benign, a long follow-up period is essential as even patients with complete resection are at risk of recurrence many years after surgery. |
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