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Giant cell tumor of the sternum
Emmanuele Abate1, Farzaneh Banki, Jeffrey A Hagen
1Department of Surgery and Pathology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 28, 2009
Abstract:
Primary giant cell tumors of the chest wall are extremely rare. To date, we believe that there have been no reported cases of sternal giant cell tumors in the thoracic literature. We report a case of an isolated giant cell tumor of the sternum in a 28-year-old man. The mass was resected and the sternum was reconstructed with methyl methacrylate prosthesis and bilateral pectoralis muscle advancement flaps. Excellent functional and aesthetic results were achieved.
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