Two cases of small cell lung cancer presenting an unusual pattern of progression mimicking pleural mesothelioma

Yoshinobu Maeda; Yoshihiko Segawa; Nagio Takigawa; Ichiro Takata; Nobukazu Fujimoto; Katsuyuki Hotta; Koichi Mandai; Kenji Eguchi

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Two cases of small cell lung cancer presenting an unusual pattern of progression mimicking pleural mesothelioma

Yoshinobu Maeda, Yoshihiko Segawa, Nagio Takigawa, Ichiro Takata, Nobukazu Fujimoto, Katsuyuki Hotta, Koichi Mandai, Kenji Eguchi

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We describe 2 cases in which small cell lung cancer presented an unusual pattern of progression that mimicked malignant pleural mesothelioma on diagnostic imaging. The patients were a 74-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman, both of whose chest roentgenograms and CT scans showed irregular right pleural thickening with effusion. Small cell lung cancer had been diagnosed by routine examination in the former patient, but the latter had been given a clinical diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma until postmortem examination, which showed small cell lung cancer. The right lung of each patient was found to be fused to the thorax by a thick layer of tumor cell involvement on postmortem examination.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	121-124
Number of pages	4
Journal	International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02492860
Publication status	Published - Jul 2 1998
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Malignant pleural mesothelioma
Pleural involvement
Postmortem examination
Small cell lung cancer

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Surgery
Hematology
Oncology

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