Primary mediastinal leiomyosarcoma.
A 44-year-old woman complaining of thoracic back pain was found to have a large mediastinal leiomyosarcoma. This was completely excised. No adjuvant treatment was given. Follow-up after 24 months showed no evidence of disease. For these rare tumours surgery offers the best treatment, although local recurrence and metastases do occur.
Van Schil
P E
PE
Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.
Colpaert
C G
CG
Van Look
R
R
Van Oosterom
A T
AT
Van marck
E A
EA
Reher
S W
SW
Schoofs
E L
EL
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*