A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis?

Publikation

A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis?

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 02.05.2017

Minervini Fabrizio, Greuter Ladina, Kestenholz Peter, Schneider Tino, Gutmann Christine, Dutly André Emanuel

Zitation

Minervini F, Greuter L, Kestenholz P, Schneider T, Gutmann C, Dutly A. A chest wall mass after breast carcinoma surgery: a simple diagnosis?. Respirol Case Rep 2017; 5:e00240.

Art

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)

Zeitschrift

Respirol Case Rep 2017; 5

Veröffentlichungsdatum

02.05.2017

ISSN (Druck)

2051-3380

Seiten

e00240

Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

Tuberculosis affects pulmonary and extra-pulmonary sites with a multitude of differing presentations. The involvement of thoracic wall is a rare entity. We report the case of a patient who had a tumefaction on the right chest wall 6 months after a right breast mastectomy. After an initial radiological suspicion of malignancy, we detected intraoperatively an abscess in which histologic examination revealed granulomas with multinucleated giant cells.