title: Primary mediastinal leiomyosarcoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Van Schil
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Colpaert
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Look
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Van Oosterom
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Van marck
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Reher
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Schoofs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*