title: A huge mass destroying the fifth rib: a rare case of cavernous haemangioma.
abstract: A 28-year-old female patient presented with back pain, dyspnea and coughing. Chest radiograph showed a mass in the middle zone of the right hemithorax. CT confirmed the mass was confined to the 5th rib. During the exploratory thoracotomy, a smooth, firm mass measuring 7 x 9 x 5 cm was found to have destroyed the middle and posterior parts of the 5th rib. Together with the adjacent intercostal muscles, the 5th rib was excised en-block. Postoperative pathology was cavernous haemangioma. Cavernous haemangioma of the rib is very rare, and very few cases have been reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Atatürk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Centre, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sirmali
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Türüt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Findik
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ağaçkiran
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012272:Ribs / Q000473:pathology*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed