Successful management of pleural lipoma by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Abstract

Pleural lipoma is an extremely rare clinical entity. Symptomatic pleural lipoma is rarer. We report a case of symptomatic pleural lipoma which was successfully managed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). A brief review of relevant literature has been included in the article.

Keywords

• Pleural lipoma
• video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
• pleura tumour