Yamashita Y, Harada H, Mukaida H, Kaneko M. Extrapleural pneumonectomy plus rib resection for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case report.
J Cardiothorac Surg 2014;
9:176. [PMID:
25403819 PMCID:
PMC4241212 DOI:
10.1186/s13019-014-0176-7]
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Abstract
We report a case of a 58-year-old Japanese man with epithelioid-type MPM, with a left chest wall protruding tumor, who underwent extrapleural pneumonectomy and chest wall resection. Postsurgical pathology showed that surgical margins were free of mesothelioma cells. Positron emission tomography taken 5 years after surgery showed no recurrence at any site, suggesting that long-term survival could be dependent on margin-free tumor resection or that specific MPM subgroups have lower malignant potential, leading to improved survival.
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