title: Thoracoscopic resection of bilateral metastatic sarcomas causing spontaneous pneumothorax.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Morgantown.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Tanguilig
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Graeber
mesh_terms: 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