Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection

We report a case of a 57-year-old male who presented with an inoperable chest wall sarcoma due to numerous pulmonary metastases and was treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The patient subsequently developed refractory bleeding from the chest wall tumor requiring palliative chest wall re...

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Autores principales: Weber, Daniel J, Coleman, John J, Kesler, Kenneth A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-82
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description We report a case of a 57-year-old male who presented with an inoperable chest wall sarcoma due to numerous pulmonary metastases and was treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The patient subsequently developed refractory bleeding from the chest wall tumor requiring palliative chest wall resection and reconstruction. The patient made an uneventful recovery however died from metastatic disease 8 months later. This case represents a very rare indication for palliative chest wall resection.
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spelling pubmed-36398972013-05-01 Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection Weber, Daniel J Coleman, John J Kesler, Kenneth A J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report We report a case of a 57-year-old male who presented with an inoperable chest wall sarcoma due to numerous pulmonary metastases and was treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The patient subsequently developed refractory bleeding from the chest wall tumor requiring palliative chest wall resection and reconstruction. The patient made an uneventful recovery however died from metastatic disease 8 months later. This case represents a very rare indication for palliative chest wall resection. BioMed Central 2013-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3639897/ /pubmed/23587430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-82 Text en Copyright © 2013 Weber 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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Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title_full Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title_fullStr Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title_full_unstemmed Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title_short Refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
title_sort refractory bleeding from a chest wall sarcoma: a rare indication for palliative resection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-82
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