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Case Reports

Successful Resection of Giant Solitary Pulmonary Metastasis From a Phyllodes Tumor

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom
^b Department of Histopathology, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Accepted for publication June 5, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Ganti, Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom (Email: gantisom{at}hotmail.com).

Phyllodes tumors are rare fibroepithelial tumors that make up less than 1% of all breast tumors. Malignant phyllodes tumors are associated with a 25% incidence of distant metastasis, which is invariably fatal within 24 months. We report successful resection of a solitary pulmonary metastasis in the left chest in a 50-year-old woman 7 years after a right- sided mastectomy for malignant phyllodes tumor.