Abstract
A 44-year-old man with was seen at the hospital because of a tumor in the left lateral chest wall. The tumor was located in the 8th rib of left lateal chest to scapla. Intraoperative exsicional biopsy was conduted, which ruled out any malignant neoplasmas. Complete radical tumorectomy was carried out. Histologically, no atypical spindle-shapd fibroblasts with abundant collagen had grown, and the tumor infiltrated into the muscle and scapla on a permanent paraffin block. The definite diagnosis of extraabdominal desmoid tumor was made. There has been no evidence of recurrence, as of 6 months after the surgery. Extra-abdominal desmoid tumors of the chest wall are rare an only 17 cases have been reported in Japan. In a review of the literature, local recurrence occurs so frequently that the complete surgery should be the treatment of this tumor. We presented a case of extra-abdominal desmoid tumor with a review of the literature in Japan. The tumor including the first and second ris which was 8.0×6.0×2.5cm in size was resected en bloc.
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