Intrathoracic giant pleural lipoma: case report and review of the literature

This report describes a giant pleural lipoma that arose from the pleura of the 7th anterior intercostal space and occupied approximately 75% of the right pleural cavity in a 49-year-old woman. The tumor was completely excised by right thoracotomy. The complete histopathological investigation showed...

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Autores principales: Chen, Ming, Yang, Jun, Zhu, Lei, Zhao, Heng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24120207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-196
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description This report describes a giant pleural lipoma that arose from the pleura of the 7th anterior intercostal space and occupied approximately 75% of the right pleural cavity in a 49-year-old woman. The tumor was completely excised by right thoracotomy. The complete histopathological investigation showed pleural lipoma, and we made a review of literature.
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spelling pubmed-39738122014-04-04 Intrathoracic giant pleural lipoma: case report and review of the literature Chen, Ming Yang, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhao, Heng J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report This report describes a giant pleural lipoma that arose from the pleura of the 7th anterior intercostal space and occupied approximately 75% of the right pleural cavity in a 49-year-old woman. The tumor was completely excised by right thoracotomy. The complete histopathological investigation showed pleural lipoma, and we made a review of literature. BioMed Central 2013-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3973812/ /pubmed/24120207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-196 Text en Copyright © 2013 Chen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Intrathoracic giant pleural lipoma: case report and review of the literature
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title_short Intrathoracic giant pleural lipoma: case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24120207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-196
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