title: Resection of a chest chondrosarcoma invading the spine and the aorta.
abstract: A 34-year-old man presented with a large chondrosarcoma of the chest invading six ribs and the vertebral bodies of five adjacent thoracic vertebrae. En bloc resection of the tumor with six ribs, the anterior part of five vertebral bodies, and the thoracic aorta was performed through a thoracotomy and a paravertebral incision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Noirhomme
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: d'Udekem
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Munting
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: El Khoury
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Humblet
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dion
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012272:Ribs; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*