Intrathoracic chest wall lipoma: mimicking a soft tissue neoplasm on a chest radiograph

Intrathoracic chest wall lipoma: mimicking a soft tissue neoplasm on a chest radiograph.

A 44-year-old eastern European woman presented to the tuberculosis (TB) service after she had a pre-employment TB screening chest radiograph. The frontal anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph demonstrated a soft-tissue opacity projected over the lateral aspect of the right hemithorax, with poorly defined lateral margins (Fig 1a). The ancillary lateral chest radiograph demonstrated a welldefined...

Primary Hydatid Disease of the Chest Wall Presenting as a Chest Wall Tumor

Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease that is endemic in Mediterranean areas, South America, North Africa, Australia, and Iran. Although the liver and lung are the most common involved organs, but the other organs in human body also can be involved by hydatid cyst. Chest wall involvement by hydatid cyst is a rare condition, which may be misdiagnosed as chest wall tumor in the endemic areas. Herei...

Soft-tissue sarcomas of the chest wall: prognostic factors.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors that are predictive of outcome for patients with chest wall soft-tissue sarcomas. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 55 surgically treated patients, from March 1964 to October 1996. RESULTS The median age of the patients was 47.5 years (age range, 15 to 76.3 years), and 56.4% were men. The most common presenting symptom was chest wall mass in 29 pat...

Chest discomfort and abnormal chest radiograph.

Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the chest wall.

Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the chest wall is a relatively rare but highly lethal surgical condition that has received little attention in the literature. The case of a 21-year-old female patient affected by this rare infection is reported. Our recent experience and literature data suggest that chest wall necrotizing soft tissue infection spreads rapidly and is highly lethal. High inde...