title: Chest wall angiolipoma complicating von Recklinghausen disease.
abstract: We present the case of an 18-year-old man with chest wall angiolipoma and a medical history of von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis. The chest wall tumor was originally detected during an evaluation for chest pain. For diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, video-assisted thoracoscopic resection was performed, and the tumor was histopathologically confirmed to be an angiolipoma. Chest wall angiolipoma is exceptionally rare. Only two cases have been reported in the English literature, with no reports regarding chest wall angiolipoma in a patient with von Recklinghausen disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Japan. tk.thoracic@gmail.com
authors.forename: Teruya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Komatsu
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Takuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujinaga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D018206:Angiolipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D035583:Rare Diseases; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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