Complex chest wall reconstruction after excision of malignant phyllodes tumour

Phyllodes tumour is a rare breast tumour which is locally invasive, and full thickness chest wall involvement by phyllodes is rarely reported. A woman presented with recurrent phyllodes tumour and multilobulated exophytic mass of size 18.5×5.3 cm in anterior chest wall which was abutting the right 2nd-7th rib, left 3rd-5th rib and costal cartilages. She underwent wide excision of the left chest wall tumour with excision of left 3rd-5th rib, with polypropylene mesh and pedicled lattismus dorsi myocutaneous flap reconstruction. After recovery, 3 weeks later, she underwent wide excision of the phyllodes tumour on the right chest wall with excision of 2nd-7th rib, lateral border of sternum, right crus of the diaphragm and the lower lobe of the right lung. Anterior chest wall was reconstructed using scaffold made from Steinmann pins and polypropylene mesh with greater omentum pedicled flap and split thickness skin graft.