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Subcutaneous Chest Wall Metastasis From Bladder Carcinoma Over the Totally Implantable Venous Access Port: A Rare
Sotirios Botaitis1, Charilaos Stamos2, Sempachedin Perente1
1First General Surgery Department, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, GRC.
Abstract:
A totally implantable venous access port (TIVAP) plays a main role in delivering chemotherapy to patients with cancer. A 70-year-old woman with bladder carcinoma presented with a mass over a port chamber of a TIVAP site. CT studies showed a mass surrounding the catheter near the port reservoir attached to the chest wall. The port was removed and the mass was biopsied. The pathology from the biopsy showed squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) from bladder carcinoma. We present a rare occurrence of chest wall metastasis at the site of a venous access port from primary bladder carcinoma.
