Bony metastases in desmoplastic pleural mesothelioma.

Multiple distant metastases in a case of malignant pleural mesothelioma

INTRODUCTION Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a malignant of mesodermal neoplasm and arises from multipotential mesothelial or subserosal cells of the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum. CASE A seventy five year-old male patient was admitted with chest and lower limb pain. He was a heavy smoker and exposed to environmental asbestos in his childhood. PET-CT scans showed multiple patholo...

histological type . mesothelioma : influence of Metastases in diffuse pleural

Mesothelioma is a rare tumour with an annual age adjusted incidence of 0 9 per 100 000 among white men and 0 3 per 100000 among white women in the United States (calculated for the years 1973-8).' Asbestos is the primary causal factor in the development of this disease and the recent increase in its incidence closely parallels its increased use and the concomitant widespread exposure to asbesto...

Extrathoracic lymph node metastases in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to duodenal metastases of malignant pleural mesothelioma.

A57-year-old smoker male consulted due to progressive dyspnea, with no cough or expectoration. He also referred history of diffuse abdominal pain, constipation and weight loss of 10 kilograms in the last months. At exploration it was relevant tachypnea, hypoventilation of the right lung and epigastric pain. On chest X-Ray we could observe right pleural effusion. Also a CT was made, informing th...

Peritoneal mesothelioma metastasis to the tongue – Comparison with 8 pleural mesothelioma reports with tongue metastases

PURPOSE Malignant mesothelioma (MM) rarely arises from the peritoneum. We describe the 1st such case which metastasised to the head and neck region (tongue). METHODS We briefly surveyed the American Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database, and the British Cancer Research UK database for the latest trends in MM incidence. We did a systematic Pubmed search for other MM reports...