A 21-year-old woman with a painful chest wall mass was found to have a parachordoma (PC). The tumor arose from the fifth intercostal space. A wide chest wall resection including the tumor and a 2.5 cm free margin and the subsequent reconstruction with a Gore-Tex soft tissue patch covered with a latissimus dorsi rotational flap was performed. To our knowledge, chest wall parachordoma has not been previously reported in the medical literature.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Gimferrer et al. (1999) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: