title: Chest wall parachordoma.
abstract: A 21-year-old woman with a painful chest wall mass was found to have a parachordoma (PC). The tumor arose from the fifth intercostal space. A wide chest wall resection including the tumor and a 2.5 cm free margin and the subsequent reconstruction with a Gore-Tex soft tissue patch covered with a latissimus dorsi rotational flap was performed. To our knowledge, chest wall parachordoma has not been previously reported in the medical literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain. jmgimferr@medicina.ub.es
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gimferrer
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Baldo
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Montero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramirez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002817:Chordoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007366:Intercostal Muscles; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013908:Thoracotomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome