%0 Journal Article %A Treasure, T %A Macbeth, F %D 2014 %F discovery:1457053 %J J Cardiothorac Surg %N 1 %T An exception that proves the rule: recurrence free survival five years after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457053/ %V 9 %X Are case reports at all relevant and useful? A case report of an unusual case of mesothelioma prompts a discussion and concludes that they do have a role but that their observations and conclusions need to be treated with care. %Z © 2014 Treasure and Macbeth; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.