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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1999;16:573-575
© 1999 Elsevier Science NL

Case report

Chest wall parachordoma

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, C/Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
^b Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital de Girona ‘Dr. Josep Trueta’, Girona, Spain
^c Department of Pathology, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Corresponding author. Tel.: +34-93-227-5400; fax: +34-93-227-5431
e-mail: jmgimferr{at}medicina.ub.es

A 21-year-old woman with a painful chest wall mass was found to have a parachordoma (PC). The tumor arose from the fifth intercostal space. A wide chest wall resection including the tumor and a 2.5 cm free margin and the subsequent reconstruction with a Gore-Tex^® soft tissue patch covered with a latissimus dorsi rotational flap was performed. To our knowledge, chest wall parachordoma has not been previously reported in the medical literature.

Key Words: Parachordoma • Chest wall tumor • Chest wall resection