Mitsui A, Saji H, Doi M, Hoshikawa M, Hayashi A, Nakamura H. A solitary pleural metastasis of benign giant cell tumor of bone.
Respirol Case Rep 2016;
4:e00147. [PMID:
27516881 PMCID:
PMC4968659 DOI:
10.1002/rcr2.147]
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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.
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