title: Surgical management of a giant thoracic angiomyolipoma.
abstract: This report describes the surgical management of a tumor that filled the left chest of a 58-year-old man. Histopathologic examination showed that this was an angiomyolipoma, a tumor that most commonly occurs in the kidney. The preoperative evaluation and intraoperative management are presented, along with a brief review of this unusual neoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. wholman@uab.edu
authors.forename: William L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Holman
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Diethelm
authors.forename: Audrey J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lazenby
authors.forename: Thomas S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Winokur
authors.forename: Ralph T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Lyerly
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Cerfolio
mesh_terms: D018207:Angiomyolipoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*