ABSTRACT
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a malignancy of the mesothelial lining of the thoracic cavity or peritoneum. It is one of man’s best-known examples of an occupational disease. Usually it is unilaterally located in one hemithorax and spreads out over the entire surface of the pleural. In 80% of the cases the disease is localized the thorax without any preference. In almost 20% of the cases the disease is located in the peritoneum and rarely the disease nds its only origin in the pericardium or in the scrotum.1 Over the last three decades the disease has shown to be very resistant to all kinds of therapies and has a strong tendency to recur.
