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High Grade Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall of a Chronic Tuberculous Empyema - A case report -  

Chung, Won-Jae (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Lee, Sung-Ho (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Kim, Kwang-Taik (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Kang, Moon-Chul (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Chung, Jae-Ho (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Son, Ho-Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Son, Kuk-Hui (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
Sun, Kyung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.41, no.6, 2008 , pp. 795-798 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 50 year old male patient was admitted due to fever and left upper-quadrant abdominal pain. He had a history of previous treatment for pulmonary TB and splenectomy due to plastic anemia. A large peritoneal abscess with connection to a chronic left side tuberculous empyema thoracis was diagnosed on admission. Chest CT also revealed a soft issue lesion on the left anterior chest wall. Staged drainage of the peritoneal lesion followed by left side pleuropneumonectomy with chest wall resection was performed. The pathologic studies showed a high grade sarcoma of the chest wall.
Keywords
Sarcoma; Empyema;
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