title: [Sarcomatous malignant mesothelioma diagnosed after death].
abstract: A 77-year-old man with diabetes mellitus who was being treated as an outpatient had abnormal shadow in the right lower lobe on a chest roentgenogram in June 1993. In July 1994, a productive cough developed, and subsequent dyspnea obliged him to enter our hospital. Retention of pleural fluid led us to suspect tuberculosis pleurisy and to perform a pleural biopsy and a thoracentesis to remove pleural fluid but no final diagnosis was reached. About 14 months later he died of dyspnea with a rapidly growing tumor. An autopsy disclosed a giant tumor that occupied the right pleural cavity, excluding the lung. The tumor was well-defined between the lung and had infiltrated into the mediastinum. The histopathological diagnosis was primary malignant mesothelioma, sarcomatous type, of the visceral pleura.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okuma
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kashara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masushita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suetsugu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology