Key result
Surgical excision, pleuropneumonectomy, and adjuvant irradiation managed a recurring primary myxoid pleural sarcoma in a 51-year-old male, who remained well 5 years after initial presentation.
Case Report (n=1)
Demonstrates the feasibility of long-term survival in a patient with recurrent primary myxoid pleural sarcoma through aggressive surgical and radiation therapy.
May support aggressive multimodality therapy for recurrent pleural sarcoma; hypothesis-generating from single case and should not change practice.
Primary sarcomas of the pleura are rare intrathoracic tumours. We describe a case of a recurring myxoid pleural sarcoma in a 51-year-old male patient with coronary heart disease, who initially was admitted for coronary revascularization surgery. Tumour diagnosis was based on pathological examination of a biopsy after radiological detection of a nodule in the right upper lobe. The nodule was excised. The first recurrence was diagnosed after 15 months. Pleuropneumonectomy was done. Four years after the first excision further tumour masses appeared above the diaphragm and were surgically removed and adjuvant irradiation carried out. A year later the patient is doing well.
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Tosson et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Primary myxoid sarcoma of the pleura (n=1). Surgical excision, pleuropneumonectomy, and adjuvant irradiation was evaluated on Clinical course and recurrence. Surgical excision, pleuropneumonectomy, and adjuvant irradiation managed a recurring primary myxoid pleural sarcoma in a 51-year-old male, who remained well 5 years after initial presentation.
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