Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report

Chest wall contains a wide array of tissues ranging from soft tissues like skin and muscle to bone. A variety of sarcomas can present with a painful or painless mass, which often requires histological testing for diagnosis. Chest wall sarcomas are very rare entities which are often growing slow . A...

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Autores principales: Akhtar, Aisha, Shah, Sana, Sheikh, Abu Baker, Nasrullah, Adeel, Haq, Shujaul, Ghazanfar, Haider, Rizwan, Muneeba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29075582
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1604
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author Akhtar, Aisha
Shah, Sana
Sheikh, Abu Baker
Nasrullah, Adeel
Haq, Shujaul
Ghazanfar, Haider
Rizwan, Muneeba
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description Chest wall contains a wide array of tissues ranging from soft tissues like skin and muscle to bone. A variety of sarcomas can present with a painful or painless mass, which often requires histological testing for diagnosis. Chest wall sarcomas are very rare entities which are often growing slow . A multidisciplinary team is necessary for the management of chest wall sarcomas. We present a case of a 30-year-old male with spindle cell sarcoma of the chest wall and he underwent wide local excision along with surgical reconstruction.
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spelling pubmed-56549602017-10-26 Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report Akhtar, Aisha Shah, Sana Sheikh, Abu Baker Nasrullah, Adeel Haq, Shujaul Ghazanfar, Haider Rizwan, Muneeba Cureus Oncology Chest wall contains a wide array of tissues ranging from soft tissues like skin and muscle to bone. A variety of sarcomas can present with a painful or painless mass, which often requires histological testing for diagnosis. Chest wall sarcomas are very rare entities which are often growing slow . A multidisciplinary team is necessary for the management of chest wall sarcomas. We present a case of a 30-year-old male with spindle cell sarcoma of the chest wall and he underwent wide local excision along with surgical reconstruction. Cureus 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5654960/ /pubmed/29075582 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1604 Text en Copyright © 2017, Akhtar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Oncology
Akhtar, Aisha
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Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report
title Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report
title_full Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report
title_fullStr Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report
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title_short Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall : A Case Report
title_sort sarcoma arising from the chest wall : a case report
topic Oncology
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