Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of 105 Cases with a Tumor of the Chest Wall

作     者：Qiming Xu Naikang Zhou Ying Liu Chengxiu Yang 

作者机构：Departmant of Thoracic Surgery Genena Hospital of PLA Beijing 100853 China. 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology》 (中国肿瘤临床（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第4卷第3期

页      面：166-171页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：tumor of chest wall massive chest-wall defect prosthesis. 

摘      要：OBJECTIVE To summarize the experience in diagnosis and surgical treatment of 105 cases with a tumor of the chest wall,and to investigate re-construction of a large chest-wall defect after resection of a chest wall *** Clinical data from 105 patients with a tumor of the chest wall were retrospectively *** were 78 males and 27 females with ages ranging from 6 to 70 *** the 105 cases,94 had a primary tumor,among which 75 were benign,19 malignant and the other 11 *** a resection of a chest-wall tumor in 19 patients,reconstruction of the large chest-wall defect was *** All surgical operations were smoothly performed,without an intraoperative *** results of postoperative follow-up were as follows:48 patients with a benign tumor were still living and well,16 patients with a benign tumor died of other diseases,13 with a malignant tumor survived for a period from 21 months to 8 years,and the others with a malignancy died of local recurrence or distant *** of the 11 patients with a metastatic tumor died of carcinomatous deseases during a period from 10 to 76 *** With regard to a primary costal tumor without a patho-logical diagnosis,a restricted radical excision should be conducted *** of suitable repairing materials is very important for reconstruction of a mas-sive chest-wall defect.