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Giant Localized Fibrous Tumor of the Pleura

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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A 63-year-old male was admitted to our Department for incidental radiological finding of an enormous mass, occuping the whole left hemithorax. The CT-scan shows a giant lobulated tumor, with heterogeneous density causing a complete lung atelectasis (Figure 1. . . [Full Text of this Article]