title: Rare pleural tumors.
abstract: Primary pleural tumors other than mesothelioma account for fewer than 1% of all lung cancers, and consequently they pose diagnostic and management challenges. Their treatment must be targeted toward the specific tumor type and is often quite different from the treatment for mesothelioma or metastases. Despite the best efforts at diagnosing and treating these tumors, the prognosis associated with some of the benign and many of the malignant variants of these tumors remains poor. In this review, we describe the radiologic and pathologic features of the less common primary pleural tumors and propose a diagnostic approach to their evaluation.
authors: Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, TAC S-441, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors: Christopher T
authors: CT
authors: Erb
authors: Kelsey M
authors: KM
authors: Johnson
authors: Anthony W
authors: AW
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D035583:Rare Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D012307:Risk Factors