Nontraumatic chylothorax and previous cancer: a role for positron emission tomography?

thin smooth walls of varying sizes. However, the male sex prompted us to exclude a more sinister cause for the lesions [2], and upon further questioning the patient had complained of right thigh pain for several weeks. Examination revealed a fixed soft tissue mass in the mid-thigh. Histology from the thigh mass biopsy and bilateral video-assisted thoracic surgery bullectomy [3] confirmed pulmonary epithelioid sarcoma metastases. Subsequent investigations showed no other organ was involved. The pulmonary lesions progressed over a 5-yr period, eventually leading to respiratory failure.