The Pierre-Marie-Bamberger syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by bronchial carcinoma. Typical signs are symmetric periostoses on the diaphyses of the long tubular bones, clubbed fingers and toes with eye-glass shape of the nails, neuro-vegetative disturbances and dysproteinemia. We report a 37-year-old patient with long-term nicotine abusus, who attracted attention by symptoms of a Pierre-Marie-Bamberger syndrome. Further diagnostics revealed a tumor in the apex of the left lung. After lobectomy of the upper lobe of the left lung the symptoms are completly disappeared.
We report about two patients with an incidental finding of an intrathoracic tumor. Preoperative diagnosis was uncertain. In both patients, a solid tumor of the pleura was resected en bloc in combination with a wedge resection of the lung following anterolateral thoracotomy. The postoperative course was eventful. Six months after primary complete resection there were no signs of tumor recurrence.Solitäre fibröse Tumoren der Pleura sind seltene Neoplasien [4,19,21,34], die ein unvorhersehbares klinisches Verhalten aufweisen [7]. Die Tumoren können rasch wachsen ohne histologische Zeichen einer Malignität aufzuweisen, sie kön-nen aber auch noch Jahre nach kompletter Resektion Lokalrezidive ausbilden und maligne entarten [7].
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