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Spontaneous hemothorax caused by a chest wall chondrosarcoma
J H Karlawish1, G W Smith, E W Gabrielson
1Department of Internal Medicine, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 48-year-old man who presented with chest pain was found to have a spontaneous hemothorax caused by a large grade II chondrosarcoma. This was diagnosed on the basis of the findings from thoracotomy. After chest tube drainage of the hemothorax, the tissue obtained by two computed tomography-guided biopsies of a residual mass did not yield findings that allowed diagnosis of the tumor. This unusual case illustrates the importance of a systematic workup whenever a spontaneous hemothorax is encountered.