High Grade Sarcoma Arising from the Chest Wall of a Chronic Tuberculous Empyema: A case report.
- Author:
Won Jae CHUNG
1
;
Sung Ho LEE
;
Kwang Taik KIM
;
Moon Chul KANG
;
Jae Ho CHUNG
;
Ho Sung SON
;
Kuk Hui SON
;
Kyung SUN
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea. sholeemd@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Sarcoma;
Empyema
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Abscess;
Anemia, Aplastic;
Drainage;
Empyema;
Empyema, Tuberculous;
Fever;
Humans;
Male;
Sarcoma;
Splenectomy;
Thoracic Wall;
Thorax
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2008;41(6):795-798
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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 aplastic 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 tissue 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.
