Successful lung-sparing resection of synchronous pleural mesothelioma and contralateral lung cancer

BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an uncommon malignant tumor, and its synchronous occurrence with primary lung cancer is extremely rare. Here, we report the first surgical case of synchronous MPM and contralateral lung adenocarcinoma. Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) combined with...

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Autores principales: Imanishi, Naoko, Nabe, Yusuke, Takenaka, Masaru, Chikaishi, Yasuhiro, Kuroda, Koji, Noguchi, Hirotsugu, Yatera, Kazuhiro, Tanaka, Fumihiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28485001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0336-9

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