Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation

Chondrosarcoma of the chest wall is a rare primary neoplasm found to occur in elderly men. Patients present with an enlarging, painful, anterior chest wall mass arising from either the vicinity of the costochondral junction or the sternum. Treatment includes wide resection with appropriate chest wal...

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Autores principales: Abraham, Viju Joseph, Devgarha, Sanjeev, Mathur, Rajendra Mohan, Sisodia, Anula, Yadav, Amita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25207259
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.427
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author Abraham, Viju Joseph
Devgarha, Sanjeev
Mathur, Rajendra Mohan
Sisodia, Anula
Yadav, Amita
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description Chondrosarcoma of the chest wall is a rare primary neoplasm found to occur in elderly men. Patients present with an enlarging, painful, anterior chest wall mass arising from either the vicinity of the costochondral junction or the sternum. Treatment includes wide resection with appropriate chest wall reconstruction. We report an unusual presentation of this uncommon tumor occurring as a huge chest wall mass in a young teenage girl.
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spelling pubmed-41575132014-09-09 Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation Abraham, Viju Joseph Devgarha, Sanjeev Mathur, Rajendra Mohan Sisodia, Anula Yadav, Amita Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Chondrosarcoma of the chest wall is a rare primary neoplasm found to occur in elderly men. Patients present with an enlarging, painful, anterior chest wall mass arising from either the vicinity of the costochondral junction or the sternum. Treatment includes wide resection with appropriate chest wall reconstruction. We report an unusual presentation of this uncommon tumor occurring as a huge chest wall mass in a young teenage girl. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014-08 2014-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4157513/ /pubmed/25207259 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.427 Text en Copyright © 2014 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abraham, Viju Joseph
Devgarha, Sanjeev
Mathur, Rajendra Mohan
Sisodia, Anula
Yadav, Amita
Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title_full Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title_fullStr Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title_short Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma of the Rib Masquerading as a Giant Chest Wall Tumor in a Teenage Girl: An Unusual Presentation
title_sort dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of the rib masquerading as a giant chest wall tumor in a teenage girl: an unusual presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25207259
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.4.427
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