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Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma

We herein report the case of a 42-year-old man who presented with a huge intrathoracic mass that had grown over a period of 25 years. The initial symptom caused by the mass was dull pain in the chest. T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mosaic pattern of various signal intensities, ind...

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Autores principales: DAI, WEI, ZHUANG, XIANG, LI, QIANG, XIAO, PING, SHEN, YI, ZHENG, PING
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4812216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27073651
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.774
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author DAI, WEI
ZHUANG, XIANG
LI, QIANG
XIAO, PING
SHEN, YI
ZHENG, PING
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description We herein report the case of a 42-year-old man who presented with a huge intrathoracic mass that had grown over a period of 25 years. The initial symptom caused by the mass was dull pain in the chest. T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mosaic pattern of various signal intensities, indicating a chronic expanding hematoma. The mass was completely resected surgically. For patients who present with a slowly growing mass, particularly those with a history of tuberculous pleuritis, chest surgery or trauma, a chronic expanding hematoma should be taken into consideration. Surgical resection is the first choice of treatment for a chronic expanding hematoma caused by a blunt chest trauma.
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spelling pubmed-48122162016-04-12 Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma DAI, WEI ZHUANG, XIANG LI, QIANG XIAO, PING SHEN, YI ZHENG, PING Mol Clin Oncol Articles We herein report the case of a 42-year-old man who presented with a huge intrathoracic mass that had grown over a period of 25 years. The initial symptom caused by the mass was dull pain in the chest. T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mosaic pattern of various signal intensities, indicating a chronic expanding hematoma. The mass was completely resected surgically. For patients who present with a slowly growing mass, particularly those with a history of tuberculous pleuritis, chest surgery or trauma, a chronic expanding hematoma should be taken into consideration. Surgical resection is the first choice of treatment for a chronic expanding hematoma caused by a blunt chest trauma. D.A. Spandidos 2016-04 2016-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4812216/ /pubmed/27073651 http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.774 Text en Copyright: © Dai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title_full Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title_fullStr Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title_full_unstemmed Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title_short Giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
title_sort giant chronic expanding hematoma in the chest identified 25 years after a blunt chest trauma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4812216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27073651
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mco.2016.774
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