Primary Pulmonary Synovial Sarcoma Confirmed by Demonstration of SYT-SSX Fusion Gene Translocation by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

Yasukawa, M.; Uchiyama, T.; Kawaguchi, T.; Kawai, N.; Ohbayashi, C.; Tojo, T.

Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 70(3): 191-195

2017


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252
PMID: 28293005
Document Number: 692481
A 58-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to a mass shadow noted on a chest X-ray. Chest computed tomography showed a 3 cm nodule in the left lung. Thoracoscopic left upper lobectomy was performed to remove the lesion, and the postoperative diagnosis was primary pulmonary synovial sarcoma according to the histology and SYT-SSX gene analysis.

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