Intercostal venous hemangioma presenting as a chest wall tumor.
Chest wall tumors are uncommon, but intercostal hemangioma is even more so: There have been only a handful of reports on it to date. We report on a 32-year-old man with a left-side chest wall mass detected on a chest roentgenogram and computed tomography scans. The tumor was completely resected by means of video-assisted thoracic surgery. Two years after the surgery, the patient is doing well with no evidence of recurrence.
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Japan Self Defense Force Central Hospital, Setagaya, Tokyo 154-8532, Japan. Hashimoto1018@aol.com
Hiroshi
H
Hashimoto
Yoshiro
Y
Oshika
Kiyohaya
K
Obara
Shigeto
S
Takeshima
Kimiya
K
Sato
Yoshiaki
Y
Tanaka
D000328:Adult; D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007366:Intercostal Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003287:Contrast Media