Localized malignant mesothelioma with lymphohistiocytoid histology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21520787

Acta Chir Belg. 2011 Jan-Feb;111(1):38-43.
Localized malignant lymphohistiocytoid pleural mesothelioma.
Ouazzani A, Rondelet B, Sokolow Y, Ruiz Patino M, Remmelink M, Cappello M.
Source
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

Abstract
We report a case of a 42-year-old man with a right pleural mesothelioma. This neoplasm has 3 rare features. Firstly, it was a localized form: suspected by imaging, visualized by video-assisted thoracoscopy, at the time of the curative-thoracotomy and confirmed by the pathological analysis. The second characteristic is its histological type: "malignant lymphohistiocytoid mesothelioma". This rare subtype has been reported in only 4 papers. Third, after pleuro-pneumonectomy, our patient is alive after 6 years and 5 months postoperatively without any sign of recurrence. Only one case with a long follow-up has been reported but with recurrence at 5 years postoperatively.