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10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16162
A case of surgically treated bilateral metachronous malignant pleural mesothelioma
Mehmet Ali Bedirhan1, Levent Cansever1, Adnan Yöney2, Celalettin Kocatürk1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
2Department of Oncology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey
DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.16162
In this article, we present a 59-year-old male patient who was
admitted to our hospital with right pleural effusion and right-sided
chest pain and diagnosed as malignant pleural mesothelioma with
thoracentesis and pleural biopsy. After the patient was determined
to be operable, right parietal pleurectomy + pericardial resection
+ diaphragmatic resection were performed and four cycles of
cisplatin and pemetrexed combination as adjuvant treatment were
added. The patient was followed-up without any problem for
three and a half years. At this time, left-sided chest pain and leftsided
effusion were noticed. Tumor was negative in thoracentesis
and pleural biopsy. Then, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
was applied, which resulted in Stage 1a malignant pleural
mesothelioma. Thoracoscopic parietal pleurectomy was
performed with success. Four cycles of pemetrexed single-agent
therapy was performed as an adjuvant treatment. The patient died
of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure in 57th
month of the first and 21st month of the second operation while
he was tumor free. To the best of our knowledge, this case is the
first operated bilateral metachronous primary malignant pleural
mesothelioma in the literature.
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