Rapidly growing chest wall tumor of a pregnant woman: Ewing’s sarcoma
Journal Title: Current Thoracic Surgery - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
The incidence of coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy is approximately 1 in 1000-3000. Soft tissue sarcomas compose a very little portion of malignancies and Ewing’s sarcoma is one of these tumors, which is very rare, and the most lethal of all. We report a 37-year-old female at gestational age of 23 weeks with a rapidly growing tumor on the right chest wall and managed with chest wall resection and reconstruction. The togetherness of pregnancy and Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare entity and there is no exact information for treatment in the literature except a few case reports.
Authors and Affiliations
Ali Özdil, Önder Kavurmacı, Tevfik İlker Akçam, Taner Akalın, Seda Akgün Kavurmacı
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- DOI 10.26663/cts.2018.00017
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