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Solitary pleural fibrous tumour is not a common tumour to present early; it is of a fibroblastic origin. As they are highly vascular tumours, they carry significant risk of intra-operative haemorrhage and warrant difficult haemostasis. Surgical resection of such tumours is the standard and conventional treatment and most of them tend not to reoccur. We report a case of giant pleural fibroma with recurrence of more than three times despite resection via thoracotomy on first instance and two sternotomies.
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Harky, A., Bashir, M., Ahmad, M.U. et al. Continual recurrent solitary pleural fibrous tumour. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 33, 359–360 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-017-0520-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-017-0520-3