title: Localized malignant lymphohistiocytoid pleural mesothelioma.
abstract: We report a case of a 42-year-old man with a right pleural mesothelioma. This neoplasm has 3 rare features. Firstly, it was a localized form: suspected by imaging, visualized by video-assisted thoracoscopy, at the time of the curative-thoracotomy and confirmed by the pathological analysis. The second characteristic is its histological type: "malignant lymphohistiocytoid mesothelioma". This rare subtype has been reported in only 4 papers. Third, after pleuro-pneumonectomy, our patient is alive after 6 years and 5 months postoperatively without any sign of recurrence. Only one case with a long follow-up has been reported but with recurrence at 5 years postoperatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ouazzani
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rondelet
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sokolow
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruiz Patino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Remmelink
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cappello
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D054363:Solitary Fibrous Tumor, Pleural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed