Abstract
A 44-year-old man was pointed out a tumor shadow on a chest X-ray film and chest CT at another hospital, admitted to our hospital fecause of the tendency of the tumor to grow. Chest X-ray showed a mass in the right lower lung field, close to the diaphragm. Chest CT scan showed an oval shaped tumor, 3 cm in diameter, in the right cardiophrenic angle. Preoperative diagnosis was a mediastinal tumor or SFT. The patient underwent partial resection of the right middle lobe by VATS. Tumor was arising from visceral pleura of the right middle lobe. The tumor was whitish solid mass with capsule, 28 × 22 mm in size. Histopathologically, the tumor was diagnosed as benign SFT. The patient was doing well without any tumor recurrence for 1 year postoperatively.
