title: Computerized tomography of malignant pleural mesothelioma with spinal canal invasion.
abstract: A case malignant pleural mesothelioma is presented. The initial CT scan of the chest showed a left paraspinal pleural mass at T6-T7 level. Subsequently the mass was partially resected by a left thoracotomy. The patient later developed spinal cord findings, and a followup CT scan showed partial destruction of the twelfth dorsal vertebra and intraspinal tumor at T11-T12 level. This is only the second case reporting spinal cord compression by mesothelioma and the first documented by computed tomography.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed