Bony metastases in desmoplastic pleural mesothelioma.

Abstract

Desmoplastic mesothelioma is an unusual variant of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in which much of the tumour is fibrous and which on this account may be difficult to distinguish from fibrous pleurisy.'2 The clinical course is often rapid with metastases not infrequently occurring in liver, lung, adrenal, and kidney. Metastases in bone have only rarely been noted in desmoplastic mesothelioma,3 though they are known to occur in a small proportion ofcases of the closely related sarcomatous mesothelioma.34