A Rare Form of Mesothelioma: Malignant Pleural Deciduoid MesotheliomaTimuçin Alar1, Cemal Özçelik2, Nihal Kılınç3, Ufuk Yılmaz41Department of Thoracic Surgery, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine, Çanakkale 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana 3Department of Pathology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine, Çanakkale 4Chest Diseases Clinic, Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İzmir
Mesothelioma usually develops in elder male patients that are exposed to asbestos. Deciduoid mesothelioma is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma and has a poorer prognosis than epithelioid mesothelioma. As this subtype was seen in the peritoneum of young females and its relation with asbestos was not definite, these lesions were formerly thought to be stimulated by endogenous hormones. In the subsequent years, a relation was established between this tumor and asbestos since it was seen in the pericardium and pleura of males. In this paper, we present a 64-year-old male patient with asbestos exposure, diagnosed as having malignant pleural deciduoid mesothelioma, in which a long survival was provided with chemotherapy after surgery. Keywords: Mesothelioma, asbestosis, surgery
Timuçin Alar, Cemal Özçelik, Nihal Kılınç, Ufuk Yılmaz. A Rare Form of Mesothelioma: Malignant Pleural Deciduoid Mesothelioma. Eurasian J Pulmonol. 2014; 16(1): 44-46
Corresponding Author: Timuçin Alar, Türkiye |
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