From Yale U: Rare pleural tumors

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23411062

Clin Chest Med. 2013 Mar;34(1):113-36. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2012.12.001.

Rare pleural tumors.

Erb CT, Johnson KM, Kim AW.

Source

Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, TAC S-441, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Abstract

Primary pleural tumors other than mesothelioma account for fewer than 1% of all lung cancers, and consequently they pose diagnostic and management challenges. Their treatment must be targeted toward the specific tumor type and is often quite different from the treatment formesothelioma or metastases. Despite the best efforts at diagnosing and treating these tumors, the prognosis associated with some of the benign and many of the malignant variants of these tumors remains poor. In this review, we describe the radiologic and pathologic features of the less common primary pleural tumors and propose a diagnostic approach to their evaluation.