Malignant solitary fibrous tumour of the bronchus.

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Published: January 2014

Solitary fibrous tumours most commonly present in the pleura, but have been reported in other extrapleural sites. We present a case of an elderly female who was found to have a malignant solitary fibrous tumour of the right upper lobe bronchus, treated with thoracoscopic lobectomy and bronchoplastic closure.

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