Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1396
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Update
Update 2001: late follow-up of pleural chondrosarcoma
Harold
D. Head, MD, FACSa,b
a Chattanooga Unit of the University of Tennessee
College of Medicine, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
b Alliance of
Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgeons, Inc, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, USA
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As
Originally Published in 1990:
Ten years ago a
case report was published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
concerning a 70-year-old woman who underwent complete surgical resection
of a primary pleural chondrosarcoma. Despite the presence of several
pleural implants she was disease free at the time of publication, 14
years after initial surgery. This is an uncommon thoracic neoplasm, and
wide local excision of this tumor and all pleural implants was felt to
be justified.
She continues to do well 10 years later and is now
94 years old! In the interval she has had two hip replacements and
continues to live independently. She drives her 12-year-old BMW and has
an active lifestyle. Our recommendation that this low-grade malignancy
be treated aggressively remains valid in this case [1].
References
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Bailey S.C., Head H.D. Pleural
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