A particular case with long-term follow-up of rare malignant hemangiopericytoma of the lung with metachronous diaphragmatic metastasis.
The authors report the case of a woman with a primary hemangiopericytoma of the lung and successive metachronous diaphragmatic metastasis treated with surgery only according to the patient's decision. The patient was first submitted to left lower lobectomy with resection of diaphragm and three ribs en-bloc for pulmonary sarcoma. One year later, a chest computed tomography (CT) scan showed a small lesion above the diaphragm on the left side. She refused the proposed operation and returned fifteen months later with a new thorax CT, and told us that she had in the meantime become pregnant and given birth. A rethoracotomy to remove the metastatic diaphragmatic tumor was performed. Chemotherapy with anthracycline and iphosphamide was proposed, but the patient again refused therapy for fear of side effects impairing another pregnancy. Currently, the patient is alive and disease-free, 68 months after the first treatment. The authors emphasize the long-term follow-up obtained with surgery alone in this kind of rare sarcoma.
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Oncologic Thoracic Surgery, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy. ppbm@virgilio.it
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D000328:Adult; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed