A 74-year-old man with an enlarging pleural-based mass that was not a mesothelioma.
Soft tissue sarcomas of the chest wall, also known as primary malignant mesenchymal tumors, may be mistaken for a malignant mesothelioma because of their histologic similarities. Reports of primary pleural sarcomas are exceedingly uncommon. We present an unusual case of a primary pleural sarcoma with unique clinical and histological features not previously seen in any other subtype of pulmonary sarcoma.
Afshar
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Internal Medicine, Rush North Shore Medical Center, Skokie, Illinois 60622, USA. majid_afsharzadeh@rush.edu
Kim
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Liptay
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Leyenson
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Wirtz
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Kahan
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Ries
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed