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Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports

BACKGROUND: Chondromesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall is a rare, benign disease that usually presents at birth or in early infancy. It typically involves one or more ribs, forming a unilateral or bilateral extrapleural mass. Patients may be asymptomatic or complain of mild respiratory distress...

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Autores principales: Li, Yue, Zheng, Danyang, Zuo, Min, Li, Yang, Zhang, Huizhong
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32398154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-00940-0
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author Li, Yue
Zheng, Danyang
Zuo, Min
Li, Yang
Zhang, Huizhong
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Zheng, Danyang
Zuo, Min
Li, Yang
Zhang, Huizhong
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description BACKGROUND: Chondromesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall is a rare, benign disease that usually presents at birth or in early infancy. It typically involves one or more ribs, forming a unilateral or bilateral extrapleural mass. Patients may be asymptomatic or complain of mild respiratory distress depending on tumor size and location. To the best of our knowledge, only two of the approximately 100 cases reported so far are adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We present two cases of chondromesenchymal hamartoma. The first case involved the left fifth rib in a 24-year-old male, in close proximity to the fifth vertebral body in the left posterior mediastinum, mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor on imaging. The tumor was excised via thoracoscopy and the patient had an uneventful postoperative course. The second case was that of a 5-month-old boy, who had a tumor involving the left fifth and sixth ribs which caused thoracic cage collapse. Following en bloc resection of the tumor and the involved rib segments, the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit for treatment of pulmonary infection and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). He was discharged from the hospital in stable condition 11 days later. On histopathology, the tumor was found to be a chondromesenchymal hamartoma with immature spindle-shaped mesenchymal cells, plate-like hyaline cartilage, areas of woven bone formation, endochondral ossification and calcification, osteoclastic giant cells, and secondary aneurysmal bone cysts. CONCLUSIONS: Although the presently reported cases have morphological characteristics similar to previously reported ones, they had distinct radiological and clinical characteristics. Patient 1 is only the third report of an adult with chondromesenchymal hamartoma. His case was characterized by its radiological appearance mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor. Patient 2 represents the first documentation of DIC as a postoperative complication following excision of a chondromesenchymal hamartoma. We present these two cases to provide clinicopathological insights regarding this extremely rare tumor that are relevant to both pathologists and clinicians.
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spelling pubmed-72185702020-05-18 Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports Li, Yue Zheng, Danyang Zuo, Min Li, Yang Zhang, Huizhong Diagn Pathol Case Report BACKGROUND: Chondromesenchymal hamartoma of the chest wall is a rare, benign disease that usually presents at birth or in early infancy. It typically involves one or more ribs, forming a unilateral or bilateral extrapleural mass. Patients may be asymptomatic or complain of mild respiratory distress depending on tumor size and location. To the best of our knowledge, only two of the approximately 100 cases reported so far are adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We present two cases of chondromesenchymal hamartoma. The first case involved the left fifth rib in a 24-year-old male, in close proximity to the fifth vertebral body in the left posterior mediastinum, mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor on imaging. The tumor was excised via thoracoscopy and the patient had an uneventful postoperative course. The second case was that of a 5-month-old boy, who had a tumor involving the left fifth and sixth ribs which caused thoracic cage collapse. Following en bloc resection of the tumor and the involved rib segments, the patient was transferred to the intensive care unit for treatment of pulmonary infection and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). He was discharged from the hospital in stable condition 11 days later. On histopathology, the tumor was found to be a chondromesenchymal hamartoma with immature spindle-shaped mesenchymal cells, plate-like hyaline cartilage, areas of woven bone formation, endochondral ossification and calcification, osteoclastic giant cells, and secondary aneurysmal bone cysts. CONCLUSIONS: Although the presently reported cases have morphological characteristics similar to previously reported ones, they had distinct radiological and clinical characteristics. Patient 1 is only the third report of an adult with chondromesenchymal hamartoma. His case was characterized by its radiological appearance mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor. Patient 2 represents the first documentation of DIC as a postoperative complication following excision of a chondromesenchymal hamartoma. We present these two cases to provide clinicopathological insights regarding this extremely rare tumor that are relevant to both pathologists and clinicians. BioMed Central 2020-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7218570/ /pubmed/32398154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-00940-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Case Report
Li, Yue
Zheng, Danyang
Zuo, Min
Li, Yang
Zhang, Huizhong
Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title_full Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title_fullStr Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title_short Chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
title_sort chondromesenchymal hamartomas in a 24-year-old male mimicking a posterior mediastinal tumor and a 5-month-old boy with postoperative disseminated intravascular coagulation: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32398154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-020-00940-0
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