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A 63-year-old woman presented with a giant anterior chest wall tumor. She had undergone an operation 5 years previously for sternal chondrosarcoma at another medical center. Here, the patient underwent further surgery: a radical en bloc resection of an 18 × 18 cm portion of her anterior chest wall was performed, including the proximal ends of both clavicles, the first three costochondral joints bilaterally, and the tumor mass. The large chest wall defect was reconstructed in two layers: the first with a polypropylene mesh and a pedicled latissimus dorsi muscle flap as the second. She is healthy 20 months postoperatively.
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Çitak, N., Çelikten, A., Metin, M. et al. Radical resection of a giant recurrent chondrosarcoma of the anterior chest wall. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 59, 512–514 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-010-0714-8
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