title: A case of multiple synchronous localized fibrous tumor of the pleura.
abstract: We report a patient with two synchronous distinct masses in the same hemithorax both of which got the diagnosis of benign localized fibrous tumor of the pleura. The plain chest X-ray was rather obscured due to a large left-sided pleural effusion, but her subsequent computerized chest tomography revealed a heterogeneous hypodense soft tissue mass, which was pleural in origin, sitting on the diaphragm bathed in fluid. At thoracotomy, we detected two distinct masses in the left hemithorax, both arising from the visceral pleura via their vascular pedicles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Atatürk Center For Chest Disease's and Thoracic Surgery, Yüksel Caddesi, 34/15, Kizilay, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Taştepe
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alper
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Ozaydin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Memiş
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cetin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed