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Yoshinori Yamashita1, Hiroaki Harada2, Hidenori Mukaida3
1Director of General Thoracic Surgery, Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, 3-1 Aoyama, Kure, 737-0023, Japan. yamashitay@kure-nh.go.jp.
Abstract:
We report a case of a 58-year-old Japanese man with epithelioid-type MPM, with a left chest wall protruding tumor, who underwent extrapleural pneumonectomy and chest wall resection. Postsurgical pathology showed that surgical margins were free of mesothelioma cells. Positron emission tomography taken 5 years after surgery showed no recurrence at any site, suggesting that long-term survival could be dependent on margin-free tumor resection or that specific MPM subgroups have lower malignant potential, leading to improved survival.
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