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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Case Report
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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author Kouritas, Vasileios K
Roussakis, Antonios G
Soultanis, Konstantinos
Bellenis, Ion
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-32430802011-12-20 Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury Kouritas, Vasileios K Roussakis, Antonios G Soultanis, Konstantinos Bellenis, Ion J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2011-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3243080/ /pubmed/22112630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-156 Text en Copyright ©2011 Kouritas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title_full Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title_fullStr Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title_full_unstemmed Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title_short Extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
title_sort extrathoracic chronic heamatoma presenting as a chest wall tumor 2 years after a blunt thoracic injury
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243080/
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