A rare giant sarcoma of the chest wall: Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma Göğüs duvarının nadir dev sarkomu: İndiferansiye pleomorfik sarkom

KOCAMAN G., Yenigun M. B., KAYA B., ÖZDEN N. S., ÖZDEMİR A., Kocak M. E., ...More

Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, vol.29, no.4, pp.552-555, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 29 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.20061
  • Journal Name: Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.552-555
  • Keywords: Chest wall, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2021 All right reserved by the Turkish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma or, as formerly called, malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a type of sarcoma which originates from fibroblast and histiocytic cells. It is the most common type of sarcoma among all soft tissue sarcomas in adults. Its most common site is the lower limb, followed by the upper limb and the retroperitoneum. It is rarely encountered on chest wall. In the differential diagnosis of masses on chest wall, it is important to consider undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in surgical planning. In this article, we report a male case with a giant undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma located above the right scapula.