Thoracoscopic resection of bilateral metastatic sarcomas causing spontaneous pneumothorax.
Pulmonary metastases from soft tissue sarcomas may present with spontaneous pneumothorax. Metastatectomy via thoracotomy or median sternotomy has been the procedure of choice. We present a patient with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax secondary to metastatic angiosarcoma where staged video-assisted thoracic surgery using the thoracoscope was used to successfully resect the tumors.
Jones
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West Virginia University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Morgantown.
Tanguilig
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Graeber
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D000368:Aged; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013690:Television; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods