Orellana MGA, Gómez LK, Lorenzo RJL, Concepción LA

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ABSTRACT

Background: localized fibrous tumors of the pleura are rare, with uncertain etiology; most of the patients with this disease exceed the fifth decade of life and more than a half are without symptoms at the diagnosis, mainly when tumors are small.
Objective: to describe a case of a female patient with a diagnosis of a localized fibrous tumor of pleura in which due to her age, the symptomatology and histological features of the tumor, it represents an infrequent clinical situation with difficulties for the diagnosis.
Case presentation: a 39-year-old healthy woman with one year history of persistent thoracic lumbar pain; in chest radiography a left retrocardiac image was observed and it was corroborated by chest CT scan. Total exeresis was performed in a 4.8 cm mass, pedunculated, originating from the visceral pleura, whose histopathological diagnosis was a localized fibrous tumor of the pleura with cystic features. After several months of follow-up, the patient remained healthy and did not show recurrent signs.
Conclusions: this case is an infrequent presentation of a localized fibrous tumor of the pleura for having been diagnosed in a patient under 40 years old, with an infrequent symptomatology and because the tumor has shown a benign behavior even with cystic features.

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