Case Report Localized malignant pleural mesotheliomawith renal metastasis

Localized malignant pleural mesothelioma (LMM) is a rare subset of malignant pleural meso-thelioma. Its epidemiology, biology, natural history and optimal treatment are poorly understood. We report a case of LMM treated aggressively with complete surgical resection and adjuvant radiotherapy, but subsequently complicated by local chest wall recurrence and solitary metasta-sis to the kidney. This case is examined in the context of a small number of cases of LMM in the literature to emphasize the existence of this rare disease entity, their unusual biological behav-iour and the need for further tumour molecular and genomic research