INTRODUCTION Primary chest wall sarcomas are rare mesenchymal tumors and their mainstay of therapy is wide surgical resection. We report our single-institution, multidisciplinary experience with full-thickness resection for primary chest wall sarcomas. METHODS A retrospective review of our prospectively maintained databases revealed that 51 patients were referred for primary chest wall sarcom...

BACKGROUND A malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) rarely originates from the chest wall. CLINICAL FINDINGS In this case, we describe a 59-year-old Chinese woman who presented with an enormous mass originating from the left chest wall and involving the left upper pulmonary lobe. THERAPY After a radical en-block resection of the entire chest mass with left upper pulmonary lobectomy, and the c...

Treatment of malignancies on the chest wall, like chest wall recurrence of tumor, advanced cutaneous neoplasm and lymphoma, is still a challenge due to the involvement of the critical structures of heart and lung by the conventional strategy. The aim of the current study was to investigate targeted photo-chemo therapy mediated by Fe3O4@ZnO nanocomposites for malignancy on the chest wall while c...

Abstract Background Several cases of lipoma in unusual locations the thorax have been reported. Appropriate surgical treatment depending on location and shape is often required. Case presentation We herein report an extremely rare case a chest wall growing into pleural cavity. The tumor was successfully removed without damaging capsule by combination direct thoracoscopic approaches. Conclusions...

Primary chest wall tumors are uncommon and constitute 0.2-2% of all tumors. Metastatic tumors and tumors of local extension are more common. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) of the chest wall is even rarer and its incidence on the chest wall not stated in the literature. The incidence in the general population is 0.0001% while the risk is approximately 4600 times higher in patien...

We report a case of a 58-year-old Japanese man with epithelioid-type MPM, with a left chest wall protruding tumor, who underwent extrapleural pneumonectomy and chest wall resection. Postsurgical pathology showed that surgical margins were free of mesothelioma cells. Positron emission tomography taken 5 years after surgery showed no recurrence at any site, suggesting that long-term survival coul...