RT Book, Section
A1 Refaely, Yael
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Colson, Yolonda L.
A2 Jaklitsch, Michael T.
A2 Krasna, Mark J.
A2 Mentzer, Steven J.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1105846058
T1 Overview of Chest Wall and Sternal Tumors
T2 Adult Chest Surgery, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178189-3
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105846058
RD 2024/04/20
AB Chest  wall  tumors  reflect  a  wide  range  of  the  various  musculoskeletal  diseases.  Their  infrequency  in  this  unique  location  generates  a  diagnostic  and  therapeutic  challenge  to  the  thoracic  surgeon.  More  than  half  the  malignant  tumors  of  the  chest  wall  represent  either  metastatic  lesions  from  distant  organs  (i.e.,  carcinoma  or  sarcoma)  or  invasion  from  contiguous  structures  such  as  the  breast,  lung,  pleura,  or  mediastinum.1  Primary  malignant  neoplasms  include  tumors  that  arise  from  soft,  cartilaginous,  or  bony  tissues.  The  most  common  pathology  is  sarcoma  and,  less  frequently,  solitary  plasmacytoma  or  lymphoma.  In  many  series,  the  number  of  patients  reported  is  small  because  of  the  rarity  of  primary  chest  wall  malignant  tumors;  thus  the  data  on  these  cases  are  limited.  From  these  data  it  can  be  concluded  that  approximately  45%  of  primary  malignant  chest  wall  tumors  arise  from  soft  tissue  sarcomas  and  55%  appear  in  cartilaginous  or  bony  tissue.2