학술논문
A patient with epithelioid pleural mesothelioma (Myxoid variant) who survived for a long period without treatment
Document Type
article
Source
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, Vol 33, Iss , Pp 101381- (2021)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2213-0071
Abstract
Pleural mesothelioma is a disease with a very poor prognosis. Here, we report a mesothelioma patient who survived for 5 years and a half. As a result of the autopsy, the tumor was diagnosed as a myxoid variant, which is internationally proposed as a histological subtype of epithelioid mesothelioma with a relatively favorable prognosis. Since patients with this disease are expected to survive for a long period even without treatment, careful determination of the therapeutic approach is considered necessary. This report is considered to be the first of a myxoid variant epithelioid pleural mesothelioma in Japan.