Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the thoracic wall in the area of a tuberculous pleural callosity
Theegarten, D.; Meisel, M.
Pneumologie 47(7): 458-460
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0934-8387 PMID: 8397399 Document Number: 421767
The authors report on a patient of 85 years of age in whom a malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the thoracic wall had formed 51 years after a healed pulmonary tuberculosis that had resulted in the development of a pleural callosity. The malignant fibrous histiocytoma is interpreted as a neoplastic transformation of cells of the primary repair process. Age assumes the role of a predisposing factor.