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.
Hashimoto
Hiroshi
H
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Japan Self Defense Force Central Hospital, Setagaya, Tokyo 154-8532, Japan. Hashimoto1018@aol.com
Oshika
Yoshiro
Y
Obara
Kiyohaya
K
Takeshima
Shigeto
S
Sato
Kimiya
K
Tanaka
Yoshiaki
Y
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