title: Extended resection of a chest wall desmoid tumour with concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting.
abstract: We report on the resection of a large desmoid tumour of the anterior chest wall in a 65-year-old male patient. The patient had a coronary artery bypass operation 2 years prior to the first detection of a tumour. Because the left internal mammary artery bypass to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) was embedded in the tumour mass, it had to be resected together with the tumour. A saphenous vein aorto-coronary bypass to the LAD with an off-pump technique was then performed, and the chest was reconstructed with polypropylene mesh and a latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
authors.affiliation: German Heart Center Munich, Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Technical University Munich, Lazarettstrasse 36, 80636, Munich, Germany. kostolny@dhm.mhn.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostolny
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Präuer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Augustin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lange
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D018222:Desmoid Tumors / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology; D012086:Reoperation; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*