[Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the thoracic wall in the area of a tuberculous pleural callosity].
The authors report on a patient of 85 years of age in whom a malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the thoracic wall had formed 51 years after a healed pulmonary tuberculosis that had resulted in the development of a pleural callosity. The malignant fibrous histiocytoma is interpreted as a neoplastic transformation of cells of the primary repair process. Age assumes the role of a predisposing factor.
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Abteilung für Pathologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
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D000368:Aged; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010994:Pleura / Q000473:pathology; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014396:Tuberculosis, Pleural / Q000473:pathology*