title: Primary amyloidoma of chest wall--a rare condition.
abstract: Organ specific amyloidosis has been shown to be confined to various organs like liver, lung, spleen, urinary bladder and gastro-intestinal tract, but amyloidoma or tumoural amyloidosis of chest wall with no evidence of systemic amyloidosis is an extremely rare presentation and only two cases have been reported till now. The authors report a case of chest wall amyloidoma with review of literature.
authors.affiliation: General Surgery Department, CSM (Erstwhile King George's) Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Suresh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Surender
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Arshad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Awanish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000075363:Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D035441:Thoracic Wall; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed