title: Liposarcoma of the pleural cavity.
abstract: We report a case of pleural liposarcoma in a 58-year-old male patient with a twenty-year history of smoking, who was admitted for chest pain and chronic cough. Pleural liposarcoma is a rare, highly malignant intrathoracic tumor arising from the soft tissue of the pleural cavity. Chest radiograph and CT scan revealed a homogeneous mass with subtotal opacification of the left hemithorax. Tumor diagnosis was based on histopathological examination of a transparietal biopsy and revealed a mixed type liposarcoma. Surgical resection was performed followed by adjuvant irradiation. No recurrence was diagnosed during the follow-up period of ten months and the patient continues to do well at the time of writing this paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Haut Leveque, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. ihsan@medscape.com
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Alloubi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boubia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ridai
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D018208:Liposarcoma, Myxoid / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D035422:Pleural Cavity / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome