Chest Wall Implantation of Lung Cancer After Percutaneous Fine Needle Biopsy: A Case Report.
- Author:
Sung Bo SIM
1
;
Sung Ho LEE
;
Jong Bum KWON
;
Moon Sub KWAK
;
Se Wha KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Catholic University Medical College, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
neoplasm metastasis;
biopsy;
chest wall
- MeSH:
Biopsy;
Biopsy, Fine-Needle*;
Biopsy, Needle;
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell;
Diagnosis;
Lung Neoplasms*;
Lung*;
Needles;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Skin Transplantation;
Thoracic Wall*;
Thorax*
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1997;30(4):445-448
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Percutaneous transthoracic fine needle biopsy has been widely used In the diagnosis of pulmonary lesions especially lung cancer. Onc of the rarest complication's is that malignant cells are implanted within the needle tract and developed a chest wall mass subsequently. Wc expcrlenccd a case of chest wall implantatio of lung cancer after percutaneous transthoracic floe needle biopsy. A 65-ycar old man had undergone bilobectomy (right upper lobe and right middle lobe)for squamous cell carcinoma (T2N0M0) of the lung. 60 days after percutaneous biopsy (48 days after operation), a tiny nodule (1 mm sized) was notcd at the right anterior chcst wall where the diagnostic fine needle biopsy had been performed before operation. This tiny mass was rapidly growing to 1.5 cm sized mass for 20 days. We carried out wide excision of chest wall mass and skin grafting, and confirmed squamous cell carcinoma histopathologically as same as the lung cancer.
