Chest wall leiomyomas: A case report and review of the literature Göğüs duvarı leiomyomları: Olgu sunumu ve literature Özeti
Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine, cilt.7, ss.44-47, 2016 (Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 7
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Doi Numarası: 10.4328/jcam.4485
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.44-47
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Leiomyoma, Chest wall, Pleura, Benign
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Leiomyomas are benign soft tissue tumors that originate in the smooth muscles. Pleura and chest wall are uncommon location for such tumors. Leiomyomas located in the chest wall may originate from smooth muscles of the chest wall region beginning from the subpleural connective tissue of the parietal pleura, to the subdermal tissue. These tumors have been defined in literature using two different terms: “pleural leiomyoma” and “chest wall leiomyoma”. Both possess similar radiological signs independent from the tissue from which they originate, which are either subpleural connective tissue or other structures in the chest wall. It is therefore difficult to make a clear determination of the tissue from which they originate. Parietal pleura is also accepted as a part of the chest wall, and thus, in our opinion, the term “chest wall leiomyoma” can be described as comprising both groups. The current study presents a 56-year-old male patient who had a space-occupying mass in the left hemi-thorax. After resection of the mass, pathological examination diagnosed it as chest wall leiomyoma.