Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema

Refractory empyema occasionally reflects hidden malignant disease. We presented a rare case of rapidly progressive malignant mesothelioma of the pleura (MPM) mimicking empyema. Physicians should be aware of MPM when patients with empyema are refractory to the standard treatment, and PET-CT may be he...

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Autores principales: Fujita, Kohei, Kim, Young Hak, Nakatani, Koichi, Mio, Tadashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.371
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author Fujita, Kohei
Kim, Young Hak
Nakatani, Koichi
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description Refractory empyema occasionally reflects hidden malignant disease. We presented a rare case of rapidly progressive malignant mesothelioma of the pleura (MPM) mimicking empyema. Physicians should be aware of MPM when patients with empyema are refractory to the standard treatment, and PET-CT may be helpful in establishing a precise diagnosis in such cases.
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spelling pubmed-46146612015-10-27 Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema Fujita, Kohei Kim, Young Hak Nakatani, Koichi Mio, Tadashi Clin Case Rep Case Reports Refractory empyema occasionally reflects hidden malignant disease. We presented a rare case of rapidly progressive malignant mesothelioma of the pleura (MPM) mimicking empyema. Physicians should be aware of MPM when patients with empyema are refractory to the standard treatment, and PET-CT may be helpful in establishing a precise diagnosis in such cases. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-10 2015-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4614661/ /pubmed/26509028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.371 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
title_full Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
title_fullStr Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
title_full_unstemmed Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
title_short Rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
title_sort rapidly progressive sarcomatoid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura mimicking pulmonary empyema
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.371
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