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Lung India
; 33(4): 447-8, 2016.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27578943
ABSTRACT
We report a 53-year-old female who presented with complaints of sudden onset breathlessness, cough with expectoration for 6 months, and a right lung base lesion in the chest X-ray, which was diagnosed and treated as bronchopneumonia by the family physician. High-resolution computed tomography of the chest was done which revealed a large heterogeneously enhancing mass in the right thoracic cavity. She underwent thoracotomy and was found to have a giant encapsulated and well-circumscribed mass arising from the pleura. Excision biopsy of the mass revealed it to be an ancient schwannoma. Ancient schwannoma of the pleura is a very rare entity. Complete surgical resection is curative.