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(Chest. 1965;47:308-313.)
© 1965 American College of Chest Physicians

Intrathoracic Fatty Tumors

E. Wilson Staub M.D.1; Walter L. Barker M.D., F.C.C.P.1; and Hiram T. Langston M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Department of Surgery, Chicago State Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Three cases of intrathoracic fatty tumors have been presented, representing superior mediastinal lipfibrosarcoma, subpleural lipoma, and endobronchial lipoma. Symptoms include cough, dyspnea, heaviness in the chest, and hemoptysis, and depend upon size and location of the neoplasm. Diagnosis of endobronchial lipoma is made by endoscopic biopsy. Other types are not usually diagnosed until thoracotomy or necropsy, although aspiration biopsy has been performed in a few instances. Benign lipomas may be removed with good results. Liposarcomas generally result in a poor prognosis because of extensive local invasion and frequent radio-resistance.






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