| Literature DB >> 22112630 |
Vasileios K Kouritas1, Antonios G Roussakis, Konstantinos Soultanis, Ion Bellenis.
Abstract
Chronic expanding heamatomas may present as masses mimicking chest wall tumors. We report the case of a patient who was presented with a giant posterior extrathoracic chest wall tumor. The mass was proven to be a chronic heamatoma possibly developed after a blunt thoracic injury which took place 2 years before presentation and was growing thereafter. Clinicians should have high suspicion of rare entities which mimic tumors and consider any information reported by the patient's history in their diagnostic process.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22112630 PMCID: PMC3243080 DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-156
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Cardiothorac Surg ISSN: 1749-8090 Impact factor: 1.637