A thoracic-abdominal approach can be successfully used to resect primary synovial sarcoma of the lung invading the peritoneal cavity.
May support feasibility of combined resection in rare invasive lung sarcomas; leaves open generalizability and safety in larger cohorts.
We report a case of primary synovial sarcoma of the lung. The patient was a 32-year-old male who presented with a mass in the right hemithorax invading the peritoneal cavity. The neoplasm was resected through a thoracic-abdominal approach. The patient is doing well 21 months after surgery. Within the last decade thoracic localizations of synovial sarcoma are an emerging histopathological entity thanks to the molecular analysis of the SYT-SSX fusion gene transcript.
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