[Two resected cases of malignant fibrous histiocytoma originated from the thoracic soft tissues]

Two resected cases, a 56-year-old man and a 49-year-old man, of malignant fibrous histiocytoma originated from the soft tissues of chest wall were reported. In both cases, MFH was histologically diagnosed prior to our radical operation. One patient received an incisional biopsy and the other was a recurrent case after excisional resection in other hospital. We resected the whole chest wall together with the tumor sufficiently apart from the tumor margin. In one patient the defect of chest wall was reconstructed with the material made of bone cement which sandwiched between 2 sheets of marlex heavy mesh and covered by latissimus dorsi muscle flap on it. The other was reconstructed with single sheet of marlex heavy mesh and covered by rectus abdominis muscle flap. Recurrence was not seen in either of two patients, in spite of the general acknowledgment that MFH recurs frequently and locally. We considered that the extended wide resection including the whole chest wall should be performed, and that marlex heavy mesh and the pedunculated musculo-cutaneous flap was useful for the reconstruction of chest wall defect.