Solitary fibrous tumor of the intrathoracicgoiter

Authors

  • Mohammad Vaziri Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Zeinab Tamannaei Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:

  Solitary Fibrous Tumors (SFTs) are rare primary pleural neoplasms which have recently been reported in extra-thoracic sites. In this report, solitary fibrous tumor arising in an intra-thoracic goiter with no evidence of cervical mass in a 74-year-old obese man who was found to have a large superior mediastinal mass with tracheal deviation on Chest X-Ray is presented.

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volume 28  issue 1

pages  315- 318

publication date 2014-01

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