title: Intercostal hemangioma of the chest wall.
abstract: The authors describe a case of a 36-year-old patient who had six months' pain of the thoracic spine and left chest. A soft slowly growing resistance was present on the dorso-lateral side of the left chest wall, in the range of the seventh to ninth rib. According to the medical history, the patient did not have any prior trauma and malignancy. A well-defined tumor of the left chest wall with calcifications, which grew to the seventh and eighth intercostal space, was present on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) scans. The patient underwent resection of the tumor with the chest wall and reconstruction with polypropylene mesh. Histologically, it was a venous hemangioma, one of very rare tumors of the chest wall.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dzian
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hamzík
keywords: chest wall resection; chest wall tumor; venous hemangioma