Kanamori Yutaka, Hashizume Kohei, Sugiyama Masahiko, Motoi Toru, Fukayama Masashi, Ida Koumei, Igarashi Takashi
Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Pediatr Pulmonol. 2005 Sep;40(3):261-4. doi: 10.1002/ppul.20250.
We describe an 8-year-old male who had an intrapulmonary solitary fibrous tumor (SFT). SFTs of the pleura are now thought to originate from subpleural mesenchymal cells, and a pathological diagnosis is obtained by a specific marker, i.e., CD34 expression on the tumor cells. The SFT reported here is an extremely rare phenotype in two respects: it originated in a child under age 10 years, and it expanded in an intrapulmonary fashion.