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BMJ Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Solitary fibrous tumours (SFTs) are rare soft tissue masses that are often clinically silent until they cause mass effect. A paraneoplastic syndrome manifesting as persistent hypoglycaemia, termed Doege-Potter syndrome (DPS), can be associated with these lesions. Surgical treatment is recommended for the management of these tumours.
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January 2025
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shizuoka City Shizuoka Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
Pleural tuberculoma is often observed during treatment for tuberculous pleurisy; however, this condition is rarely found as a solitary pleural nodule in patients without a history of tuberculosis treatment, and no cases have been reported in children. We report a case of a 12-year-old boy with pleural tuberculoma presenting as a solitary mass. He had a fever and cough that prompted chest radiography, which revealed a mass in the right lung.
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October 2024
University of Padova, Medical School, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Padova, Italy.
A 46-year-old female complained of cough and dyspnea. A chest X-ray and CT scan showed a solitary subpleural pulmonary nodule in the left upper lobe. Surgical resection was performed.
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January 2025
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Resection is often the primary treatment for large brain tumors but is less practical for multiple brain metastases (BM). Current guidelines recommend stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for untreated BMs or following the surgical removal of a solitary BM to reduce the risk of local tumor recurrence. Preoperative SRS (pre-SRS) shows promise with fewer complications and more precise targeting, but it lacks tissue diagnosis and may hinder wound healing.
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December 2024
Senior Resident (Respiratory Medicine), Dr DY Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth University, Pune, India.
Solitary fibrous tumors of pleura (SFTP) are rare neoplasms derived from mesenchymal cells of the pleura. A 63-year-old male patient, laborer by profession, presented with progressive dry cough and breathlessness for one month. Clinically he had left-sided intrathoracic mass which was confirmed by CT thorax.
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