[Computerized tomography in a case of malignant mesothelioma with atypical clinical manifestations]

A case of pleural mesothelioma spread by its contiguity with the left retrocavitary region causing pain in the homolateral half of the abdomen is described in a subject who had received a rib injury several months earlier. Instrumental examinations revealed pleural lesions with effusion and a left paravertebral mass.