title: Surgical management of endobronchial solitary fibrous tumors.
abstract: Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura are rare neoplasms with both benign and malignant behaviors that are not reliably predicted by histologic findings. We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with recurrent pneumonias whose left mainstem bronchus was occluded by a 2.1- x 1.4-cm endobronchial mass that extended extraluminally into the subcarina. The mass was tissue diagnosed to be a solitary fibrous tumor preoperatively, and was completely resected by sleeve resection of the left mainstem bronchus with lung preservation. This report describes the challenging surgical management of an infrequently encountered tumor in a unique location.
authors.affiliation: Lung Cancer Research Program of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7313, USA.
authors.forename: Peter S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Pak
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yanagawa
authors.forename: Fereidoun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Abtin
authors.forename: William D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: E Carmack
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Jay M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D054364:Solitary Fibrous Tumors / Q000601:surgery*