ArticleSurgical case reports2021
Surgical resection of a rapidly growing pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma by robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a case report.
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- Comparison of short-term efficacy between robot-assisted and uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for right upper lobectomy in non-small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Spindle cell carcinoma of the lung with myogenic differentiation in a young female patient: a rare case report.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
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- From detection to disappearance: A tale of a nodule.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundPulmonary spindle cell carcinoma (PSCC) is an extremely rare tumor that is highly malignant and fast-growing. As chemotherapy and radiation therapy are ineffective, early surgical resection is effective for PSCC. CASE PRESENTATION: A 70-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis was referred to our hospital with an abnormal shadow. Chest computed tomography revealed a 33-mm-wide lobular mass in the right upper lobe. She was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer by bronchoscopic smear cytology. Although staging evaluation indicated stage IIIB (T3N2M0) disease, she required continued administration of immunosuppressants and prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) right upper lobectomy followed by lymph node dissection was performed without preoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Pathological findings revealed PSCC.
conclusionsWe report a very rare case of pulmonary spindle cell carcinoma, successfully resected with RATS.
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