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Intrapleural tumor dissemination after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery metastasectomy
Keng Leong Ang1, Carol Tan, Michael Hsin
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2003
Abstract:
In a 34-year-old woman extensive intrapleural disease developed within 1 year of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) removal of two pulmonary metastases from a previously treated synovial sarcoma. She underwent a successful complete pleurectomy through a left thoracotomy to excise the pleural tumor and remains well 6 months later. This case highlights tumor dissemination as one of the pitfalls of VATS metastasectomy and raises concerns about using VATS in this situation.