ISSN : 2146-3123
E-ISSN : 2146-3131

Intrapulmonary Solitary Fibrous Tumour of the Lung: A Very Unusual Presentation
Pınar Yaran 1, Abdullah İrfan Taştepe 2, Ülkü Yazıcı 2, Serpil Dizbay Sak 3
1Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Private Akay Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital for Chest Disease and Chest Surgery, Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
DOI : 10.5174/tutfd.2010.03890.4
Pages : 466-468

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

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