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Primary pleural Ewing sarcoma is very rare with difficulty in early diagnosis due to a lack of specific clinical manifestations or characteristic imagiological features.
Reports a rare case of primary pleural Ewing sarcoma in a 20-year-old female, highlighting the difficulty in early diagnosis due to lack of specific clinical or imaging features.
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Biopsy is warranted for nonspecific pleural masses in young adults; extends literature on primary pleural Ewing sarcoma.
Primary pleural Ewing sarcoma is a very rare entity with only sporadic cases reported in the literature. It is characterized by a high degree of malignancy, a poor prognosis, and difficulty in early diagnosis, since it has no specific clinical manifestations or characteristic imagiological features. The authors present a well-documented case of primary pleural Ewing sarcoma in a 20-year-old female, including chest X-ray, computed tomography and positron emission tomography findings.
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