title: [Metastatic sternal mass].
abstract: Sternal masses are rare and their differential diagnosis is relatively unknown by most of us. The management of such masses mobilize often a lot of expensive radiological means. We expose the case of a patient, where a lung carcinoma is diagnosed by a surgical biopsy of a sternal mass. We discuss the different diagnoses and the management of sternal masses.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique, C.H.U. Brugmann.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: De Bast
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Duttmann
authors.forename: Ph
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Putz
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013249:Sternum / Q000473:pathology; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome