https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1159

Common swelling of the dorsal thoracic wall brings an unexpected finding: elastofibroma dorsi

Vol. 90 No. 1 (2020)
Submitted: August 26, 2019
Accepted: December 3, 2019
Published: January 21, 2020
Benign, tumor, thoracic wall, surgery, MRI
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Sotirios Kotoulas
Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czechia.
Konstantinos Grapatsas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Germany.
Charalampos Georgiou
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bioclinic, Athens, Greece.
Zoi Tsilogianni
Department of Pneumonology, Attikon University Hospital of Athens, Greece.
Vasileios Leivaditis
Department of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Shantou University, Germany.
Mariana Braga Lopes Rufino
Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czechia.
Christophoros Kotoulas
xkot67@otenet.gr
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bioclinic, Athens, Greece.

Elastofibroma is a rare benign, soft-tissue slow-growing tumor seen predominantly in elderly females. We present such a case in a 46-year-old female. She presented with gradually increasing soft tissue swelling of 8×6 cm in the right inferior subscapular region. MRI showed a large intramuscular lesion with atypia. She underwent excisional biopsy and the histopathology and immunochemistry showed elastofibroma. We present this rare case to emphasize the important role of the diagnostic tools. A definitive diagnosis helps to avoid unnecessary wide and radical resection.

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Kotoulas, Sotirios, Konstantinos Grapatsas, Charalampos Georgiou, Zoi Tsilogianni, Vasileios Leivaditis, Mariana Braga Lopes Rufino, and Christophoros Kotoulas. 2020. “Common Swelling of the Dorsal Thoracic Wall Brings an Unexpected Finding: Elastofibroma Dorsi”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 90 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1159.

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