Localized fibrous tumor is an uncommon submesothelial origin tumor found in pleura most commonly. Sixty five-year-old man with right lower quadrant pain was admitted. He was treated with resection of tumor and was diagnosed as localized fibrous tumor of pelvic cavity. He is now being followed up without any evidence of recurrence for 34 months. This case is presented with reviewing references.
Pleura ; Recurrence

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Pleura* ; Rhabdomyosarcoma*

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Mesothelioma* ; Pleura*

Malignant mesothelioma is the most common primary malignant tumor involving pleura, but its diagnosis is difficult to determine by pathology in addition to the fact that it is rare. We present an unusual case of malignant mesothelioma, which initially presented as large neck mass contrary to the more common presentation of a rind like growth along the pleura demonstrated on imaging and by pathologic findings.
Mesothelioma ; Neck ; Pleura

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Mesothelioma* ; Neoplasm Metastasis* ; Pleura

123 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax (including 5 patients with bilateral pneumothorax) were treated in Military Hospital No103, aged 16-83, the sex and age were concernless. The incidence of right pneumothorax (64,4%), higher than a left (31,8%). This meidence in the group of occupations requiring physical strength is higher than in the group of sedentary and intellectual occupations. The onset manifests suddenly after an effort (76,3%). Clinical symptoms are violent suddenly pain of the chest (88,6%) dyspnea in the first hours (74,1%) enlarging intercostal clift in the sick side impairing the respiratory, gillard triad (99,1%). CT scaner has big value in determining the cause of pneumothorax (coefficiency of Kppa = 0,8). The continuous aspirating draining of pleural cavity in combining with creating pleural adhesive by autotransfusion is simple, inexpensive and efficacy method of treatment
Pneumothorax ; Pleura ; Lung ; Therapeutics ;

Lipoma is a common benign neoplasm, but lipoma arising from the pleura is rare; it is composed of mature adipose tissue and occasionally fibrous stroma. The tumor shows characteristic radiographic and CT features of pleural mass, and the lesion is homogeneous and low density, with CT numbers indicating fat. The mass was removed by surgery and confirmed as a lipoma originating from the parietal pleura.
Adipose Tissue ; Lipoma* ; Pleura

Calcifying fibrous pseudotumors (CFP) are rare soft tissue tumors that have unique histopathologic features characterized by a dense hyalinized collagenous tissue interspersed with benign spindle cells, lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate, and psammomatous or dystrophic calcifications. We report here on a case of calcifying fibrous pseudotumors in the pleura and provide a literature review.
Collagen ; Hyalin ; Pleura ; Pleural Diseases

Primary liposarcomas of the pleura are extremely rare soft tissue sarcomas, for which radiographic findings have been reported in only a few cases. Although liposarcomas occur most commonly in the lower extremities and retroperitoneum, we encountered a case of pleural liposarcoma arising in the right hemithorax, invading the medial basal segment of the right lower lobe. Thus, herein we report a case of primary pleural liposarcoma, along with a review of the literature.
Liposarcoma* ; Lower Extremity ; Pleura ; Sarcoma

Accessory fissures serve not only as natural barriers against infection but also help in localizing any focal pulmonary parenchymal diseases and in distinguishing pleural from parenchymal diseases. Knowledge of these fissures might be useful in differentiating unusual forms of atelectasis or consolidation occuring adjacent to the fissure. Left minor fissure (LMF) is a kind of unusual accessory fissures of the left lung, which separates adjacent segments of the upper lobe as clefts of various depths lined by two layers of visceral pleura. In this study, 4 cases of LMFs found in the left upper lobe during a routine dissection of 36 cadavers were observed. Of the 4 cases, 3 cases were true LMFs which located between the anterior segment of the upper lobe and superior segment of lingula, and 1 case was considered as left azygos fissure. Among the true LMFs, 2 LMFs coursed horizontally and 1 LMF coursed upward obliquely along the costal surface. The depth of LMFs was 0.5~1.2 cm and the length was 5~8 cm.
Cadaver ; Lung* ; Pleura ; Pulmonary Atelectasis