Intrapulmonary Solitary Fibrous Tumour of the Lung: A Very Unusual Presentation

Year 2011, Volume: 2011 Issue: 4, 466 - 468, 01.04.2011

Pınar Yaran Abdullah İrfan Taştepe Ülkü Yazıcı Serpil Dizbay Sak

https://doi.org/10.5174/tutfd.2010.03890.4

Abstract

Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) is a rare neoplasm which most frequently occurs in the pleura, especially visceral pleura, but it is known that intrapulmonary SFT is very rare. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was admitted with a 6-year history of slow enhancing intrapulmonary nodular lesion in her right upper lobe on chest computed tomography (CT). A right upper lobectomy was performed for complete excision of the tumour and the postoperative histopathological examination revealed SFT. No pathology was observed during the period of 34-month postoperative follow-up. Herein we present an extremely rare case of intrapulmonary SFT that was located in the deep pulmonary parenchyma.

Keywords

Solitary fibrous tumour, intrapulmonary, localized fibrous tumour

Intrapulmonary Solitary Fibrous Tumour of the Lung: A Very Unusual Presentation

Abstract

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