Solitary Fibrous Tumors of the Pleura

Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTP) are rare neoplasms. We present a case of a 53-year-old female presenting to the pulmonary clinic after an incidental finding of a right-sided chest wall tumor on a chest X-ray. A CT scan of the chest showed a pleural-based right upper lung mass; a biopsy...

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Autores principales: Ali, Maimona Iftikhar, Aftab, Ghulam, Akram, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659132
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12998
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description Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTP) are rare neoplasms. We present a case of a 53-year-old female presenting to the pulmonary clinic after an incidental finding of a right-sided chest wall tumor on a chest X-ray. A CT scan of the chest showed a pleural-based right upper lung mass; a biopsy of the mass was consistent with a solitary fibrous tumor. 
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spelling pubmed-79174322021-03-02 Solitary Fibrous Tumors of the Pleura Ali, Maimona Iftikhar Aftab, Ghulam Akram, Ali Cureus Internal Medicine Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTP) are rare neoplasms. We present a case of a 53-year-old female presenting to the pulmonary clinic after an incidental finding of a right-sided chest wall tumor on a chest X-ray. A CT scan of the chest showed a pleural-based right upper lung mass; a biopsy of the mass was consistent with a solitary fibrous tumor.  Cureus 2021-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7917432/ /pubmed/33659132 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12998 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ali et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Ali, Maimona Iftikhar
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title_full_unstemmed Solitary Fibrous Tumors of the Pleura
title_short Solitary Fibrous Tumors of the Pleura
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659132
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