A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis?

Tuberculosis affects pulmonary and extra‐pulmonary sites with a multitude of differing presentations. The involvement of thoracic wall is a rare entity. We report the case of a patient who had a tumefaction on the right chest wall 6 months after a right breast mastectomy. After an initial radiologic...

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Autores principales: Minervini, Fabrizio, Greuter, Ladina, Kestenholz, Peter, Schneider, Tino, Gutmann, Christine, Dutly, André Emanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.240
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author Minervini, Fabrizio
Greuter, Ladina
Kestenholz, Peter
Schneider, Tino
Gutmann, Christine
Dutly, André Emanuel
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description Tuberculosis affects pulmonary and extra‐pulmonary sites with a multitude of differing presentations. The involvement of thoracic wall is a rare entity. We report the case of a patient who had a tumefaction on the right chest wall 6 months after a right breast mastectomy. After an initial radiological suspicion of malignancy, we detected intraoperatively an abscess in which histologic examination revealed granulomas with multinucleated giant cells.
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spelling pubmed-54128392017-05-03 A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis? Minervini, Fabrizio Greuter, Ladina Kestenholz, Peter Schneider, Tino Gutmann, Christine Dutly, André Emanuel Respirol Case Rep Case Reports Tuberculosis affects pulmonary and extra‐pulmonary sites with a multitude of differing presentations. The involvement of thoracic wall is a rare entity. We report the case of a patient who had a tumefaction on the right chest wall 6 months after a right breast mastectomy. After an initial radiological suspicion of malignancy, we detected intraoperatively an abscess in which histologic examination revealed granulomas with multinucleated giant cells. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5412839/ /pubmed/28469918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.240 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Minervini, Fabrizio
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title_fullStr A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis?
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