Giant solitary fibrous tumor pleura: Clinical dilemma and diagnosis

Giant solitary fibrous tumor pleura: Clinical dilemma and diagnosis

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Solitary fibrous tumors in the lung are rare neoplasms with distinct clinicopathological and immunohistochemical features.We report a giant Mustards solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura in a young male which remained silent clinically till it assumed gigantic proportions.Histology and immunohistochemistry were classical of a solitary fibrous tumor.Inspite of its appalling size it proved to be benign in behavior.This case depicts the vulnerability of this lesion to a clinical bungle.

The report highlights the leather-collar significance of clinical suspicion of this rare neoplasm and reveals the diagnostic associations and procedures to avoid emperical therapy and delay in curative surgical treatment.