Pleura and lung

Pleura and lung

Incidental pulmonary nodules in patients that are imaged for staging purposes or during follow-up may represent metastases, second primary tumours (lung cancer) or benign nodules. The probability of pulmonary metastases or primary lung cancer differs depending on the number, size, size distribution and morphology of the nodules as well as the histologic type, stage, grade and other features of ...

Lung and pleura

Lung Pulmonary nodules are commonly observed in patients with cancer as well as in patients with no known malignancy particularly in heavy smokers. Most of these nodules are small (less than 8 mm). Even in cancer patients a large proportion of these small nodules are benign [1]. The likelihood of malignancy depends on individual aspects (cancer type, grading, staging, molecular markers etc.), n...

Trephine biopsy of the lung and pleura.

Recurrent dedifferentiated liposarcoma of mediastinum involving lung and pleura.

We report a case of primary recurrent mediastinal dedifferentiated liposarcoma with unusual long-term survival. A woman who complained of dyspnea showed on imaging features a bulky posterior mediastinal mass which was completely excised and initially misdiagnosed as an angiomyolipoma. She recurred 15 months later and histological examination showed a dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Resection was ...

Visceral pleura invasion and lung cancer: further clarifications.

Kang et al. [1] reported that visceral pleura invasion (VPI) was a factor of poor prognosis in T2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In a previous study [2], we already stressed the poor prognosis of VPI which we also found correlated with more extensive mediastinal lymph node (LN) involvement and decreased survival rates. Contrary to these authors, we observed VPI to be more frequent in case ...