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Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury

Chronic expanding heamatomas may present as masses mimicking chest wall tumors. We report the case of a patient who was presented with a giant posterior extrathoracic chest wall tumor. The mass was proven to be a chronic heamatoma possibly developed after a blunt thoracic injury which took place 2 y...

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Autores principales: Kouritas, Vasileios K, Roussakis, Antonios G, Soultanis, Konstantinos, Bellenis, Ion
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22112630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-156
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Sumario:Chronic expanding heamatomas may present as masses mimicking chest wall tumors. We report the case of a patient who was presented with a giant posterior extrathoracic chest wall tumor. The mass was proven to be a chronic heamatoma possibly developed after a blunt thoracic injury which took place 2 years before presentation and was growing thereafter. Clinicians should have high suspicion of rare entities which mimic tumors and consider any information reported by the patient's history in their diagnostic process.