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Chest wall giant lipoma with a thirty-year history.

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sacred Heart Catholic University, Rome, Italy.
Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery 05/2012; 15(2):323-4. DOI:10.1093/icvts/ivs159 pp.323-4
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ABSTRACT Benign chest wall tumours are very uncommon and chest wall lipomas are rarely reported in literature. We report herein a case of a 68-year old man who developed a giant, symptomless mass of the chest wall. A chest computed tomography scan evidenced a solid neoplasm measuring 27 cm in its major axis. A radical excision was performed and the histology was consistent with lipoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case reporting a giant lipoma of the chest wall with a thirty-year history.

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Keywords

68-year old man
 
Benign chest wall tumours
 
chest wall
 
chest wall lipomas
 
first case
 
giant lipoma
 
lipoma
 
major axis
 
radical excision
 
solid neoplasm
 
thirty-year history