| Autor: |
Kleanthis Anastasiadis, Chrysostomos Kepertis, Ioannis Efstratiou, Evgenia Babatseva, Ioannis Spyridakis |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 28, Iss 283 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1937-8688 |
| DOI: |
10.11604/pamj.2017.28.283.14274 |
| Popis: |
Leiomyomas of the chest wall are very rare. In a review of the current literature twelve cases were found, of which only one concerns of an intercostal leiomyoma of the chest wall. We report a case of 1 year old male child with intercostal leiomyoma who presented with a painless rigid swelling of the right chest wall. The radiological control revealed a solid mass in the right anterior sixth intercostal space. En-bloc excision of the mass by abrading of the sixth rib through right anterior thoracotomy was performed. Histopatological analysis showed a localized intercostal leiomyoma. The patient has a close follow-up for 6 months without evidence of recurrence. This is the first case of a primary intercostal leiomyoma in a child which was excised totally without reconstruction of the chest wall. |
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