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Malignant pleural mesothelioma with a 14‐year survival: A case report and electronmicroscopic study
Author(s) -
Klima Marcella,
Spjut Harlan J.,
Bossart Mattie I.,
Frazier O. Howard,
Cooley Denton H.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930200415
Subject(s) - medicine , mesothelioma , pathology , asbestos , ultrastructure , metallurgy , materials science
A patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma and surviving 15 years is presented. During this time she has had 15 thoractomies for removal of persistent tumor. The histological sections were reviewed from 1967–1981, and it was found that the tumor had remained essentially unchanged. Ten different specimens were examined electronmicroscopically; no ultrastructural changes were detected.