title: A solitary pleural metastasis of benign giant cell tumor of bone.
abstract: Giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) usually appears as a benign tumor. We describe an extremely rare case of a metastatic pleural tumor arising from a benign GCTB. The patient had undergone radial resection of a GCTB in his left wrist. After 6 years, he was sent to us for diagnosis of a large mass detected upon routine radiographic screening. We resected the tumor, which was found to be a solitary pleural metastasis of GCTB and had evidently spread arterially. To our knowledge, this is the first report of its kind.
authors: Department of Chest Surgery St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kanagawa Japan.
authors: Ai
authors: A
authors: Mitsui
authors: Department of Chest Surgery St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kanagawa Japan.
authors: Hisashi
authors: H
authors: Saji
authors: Department of Pathology St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kanagawa Japan.
authors: Masatomo
authors: M
authors: Doi
authors: Department of Pathology St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kanagawa Japan.
authors: Masahiro
authors: M
authors: Hoshikawa
authors: Department of Pathology Mie University School of Medicine Mie Japan.
authors: Akinobu
authors: A
authors: Hayashi
authors: Department of Chest Surgery St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kanagawa Japan.
authors: Haruhiko
authors: H
authors: Nakamura
keywords: Mediastinal tumor; metastases; pleura