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Pleural lipoma clinically mimicking the presentation of superior sulcus tumour upon initial evaluation
Lisa N Glass1, Hannah Goulart2, Keith D Mortman3
1Department of Internal Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
BMJ Case Reports
|December 10, 2017
Abstract:
Here we present a case of a large pleural lipoma which presented with paresthesias of the hand. This is an unusual presentation of an uncommon tumour.
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