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2. Solitary fibrous tumour of the pleura causing bulging of the thoracic wall in a 44-year-old man

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Alex Rocha Obac, Renato de Oliveira, Erica Rymkiewicz, Gilberto Szarf, Luiz Eduardo Villaça Leão, and Henrique Manoel Lederman

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Adult, Male, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Solitary fibrous tumor, medicine.medical_specialty, Biopsy, Physical examination, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Medicine, Thoracic Wall, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Solitary fibrous tumour, Mediastinum, Magnetic resonance imaging, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Solitary Fibrous Tumor, Pleural, medicine.anatomical_structure, Radiology, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, business, Thoracic wall, Right lung parenchyma
Abstract

A 44-year-old male patient presented with right chest pain for 6 years, along with progressive swelling in the same region. He did not report fever, weight loss, trauma or previous surgery. On physical examination, a 5 cm focal bulge was observed in the right hemithorax just below and medial to the nipple (figure 1). Chest x-ray showed opacification of the anterior lower third of the right hemithorax (figure 2), which on CT scan corresponded to a heterogeneous mass, compressing the right lung parenchyma and the mediastinum, partially protruding through the chest …

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2011
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