A RARE CAUSE OF CHEST PAIN: PLEUROPULMONARY SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR

RAÚL GONZALEZ LUNA, GERARDO REA MENDOZA, CHRİSTİAN RAMİREZ SANCHEZ

Current Thoracic Surgery - 2019;4(3):136-139

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Organismo Público Descentralizado de Hospitales Civiles de Guadalajara, Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

 

A 45-year-old female patient is referred to our service for presenting seven months with left chest pain accompanied by dyspnea. At the chest tomography, a low-density mass with the presence of multiple vascularized septa, without evidence of tumor extension, without mediastinum nodes growth, neither metastatic lesions. The patient was operated with posterolateral thoracotomy. In the exploration, a 10x8x6 cm spherical mass was found which was solid, mobile, with pulmonary apical parenchyma peduncle, and it was totally excised. The postoperative pathology of the patient was reported as a pleuropulmonary solitary fibrous tumor. The management of this case took guidance from the Perrot’s recommendations, surgical resection is the mainstay treatment.