title: Soft tissue sarcoma metastatic to pleura.
abstract: Almost all cancers can cause distant pleural metastases. However, pleural metastases of soft tissue sarcoma that constitute less than 1% of adult solid malignancy are extremely rare. It is very difficult to distinguish them form sarcomatous malignant mesothelioma on histopathological features. We report a 57 year-old man who presented to us with left chest pain and progressive dyspnea and was diagnosed to have a pleural metastases of soft tissue sarcoma by thoracoscopic biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey. heylul2002@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Muzaffer
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Metintaş
authors.forename: Güntülü
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ak
authors.forename: Emine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dündar
authors.forename: Sinan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erginel
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*