title: Localized pleural amyloidosis: report of a case.
abstract: We herein describe an asymptomatic 31-year-old male who was admitted for an investigation of an abnormal pleural tumor detected by chest radiography. We performed various preoperative investigations including fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography. The maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) was 2.2, and malignancy could not be ruled out. We therefore carried out a thoracoscopy-assisted partial resection of the right upper lobe combined with a parietal pleurectomy. The pathological examination showed that there was a tumor localized with pleural amyloidosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. yoshiya@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shohei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshiya
authors.forename: Riichiroh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Takaomi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koga
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shikada
authors.forename: Tokujiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maehara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18