Song, Shuai Chang, Dong Li, Hao Li, Bowen Xu, Kaikai Liu, Chunquan Cui, Yong
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Thoracic cancer
Lymphangiomatosis is a rare, benign, hyperproliferative hamartoma composed of dilated lymphatic vessels. Cystic lymphangioma (CL) in the chest wall in an adult patient is rare, but we focus on this type of patient in our present case study. A 54-year-old female patient with a painless mass in her chest wall went without treatment for two years foll...
Herr, Michael J. Cottrell, J. Macy Garrett Jr., H. Edward Weiman, Darryl S.
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Surgical Case Reports
BackgroundErosion of a pacer lead into the chest wall may result in pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade. Free rupture into the pleura or mediastinum can result in hypotension and cardiac arrest.Case presentationWe report a unique case of a right ventricular pacer lead which eroded through the right ventricle into the left chest wall and pen...
Safa, Nadia Wei, Sunny Saran, Neil Guadagno, Elena Laberge, Jean-Martin Emil, Sherif
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Journal of pediatric surgery
This study reports the incidence, severity, and predictors of musculoskeletal deformities (MD), including scoliosis and chest wall anomalies, following thoracic procedures in children. Children younger than 14 years who had thoracic surgery between 1997 and 2012 and had no other predispositions to MD, underwent longitudinal follow-ups with dedicate...
Kakamad, Fahmi H Hassan, Marwan N Salih, Abdulwahid M Ahmed, Gasha S Abdullah, Berwn A Mohammed, Shvan H
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International journal of surgery case reports
Musculoskeletal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare variant of the disease. Involvement of the chest wall is even rarer. This paper aims to report a case of primary chest wall TB mimicking gynecomastia. An 11-year-old male presented with gradual left breast enlargement for one year duration, clinically diagnosed as a case of gynecomastia. On examination; t...
Crowley, T P Atkinson, K Bayliss, C D Barnard, S Milner, R H Ragbir, M
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Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Chest wall sarcomas are rare. Resection and reconstruction pose significant anatomical and functional challenges. We present our experience of managing these tumours as plastic surgeons working within a specialist sarcoma MDT. All cases of chest wall sarcoma in which a plastic surgeon took part were analysed (2003-2016). Tumours of the breast, abdo...
Al-Qattan, Mohammad M Hajjar, Waseem M
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International journal of surgery case reports
Reconstruction of chest wall defects in children poses a challenge because the use of hard implants will impair chest wall growth. In this report, we demonstrate the reconstruction of a chest wall defect in a pediatric patient with an innovative technique using the latissimus dorsi muscle-thoraco-lumbar fascia composite flap. A 5-year old boy prese...
Patterson, Brandon Miller, Douglas L
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Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Knowledge of the acoustic attenuation characteristics of the chest wall is necessary to estimate the acoustic exposure at the pleural surface during lung ultrasound and is useful in the prediction of bio-effects (e.g., pulmonary capillary hemorrhage) and the development of safe, effective lung imaging. Currently, this property is not well character...
Mori, Masataka Yoshimatsu, Katsuma Shinohara, Shinji Tanaka, Fumihiro
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Trauma Case Reports
Choosing an optimal procedure to stabilize the chest wall for multiple rib fractures can be challenging for surgeons. Stabilization with rib plates or intramedullary devices requires exposure of fractured bones, whereas chest stabilization with intercostal Z -suture and mesh does not, yet it offers the chest wall a sufficient level of stability. He...
İncekara, Funda Fındık, Göktürk Kılıç, Nevzat Özaydın, Esra Nomenoğlu, Hakan
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Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Lipomas containing bony and chondroid areas are called osteochondrolipomas. Osteochondrolipomas are extremely rare and their treatment is not known exactly. In this article, we report a 41-year-old male patient who had a 45 mm long subcutaneous mass in the chest wall which was detected 15 years before. When the mass started to grow recently, the pa...
Capunay, Carlos Martinez-Ferro, Marcelo Carrascosa, Patricia Bellia-Munzon, Gaston Deviggiano, Alejandro Nazar, Maximiliano Martinez, Jorge Luis Rodriguez-Granillo, Gaston A
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Journal of pediatric surgery
The role of sternal torsion (ST) in patients with pectus excavatum (PEX) is unknown. We evaluated the relationship between ST and both chest malformation and cardiac compression (CC) indexes. We included consecutive patients with PEX who underwent chest computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) to define surgical candidacy. Malformat...
