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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;22:654-655
© 2002 Elsevier Science NL

Case report

Angiosarcoma of the chest wall in a patient with fibrous dysplasia

^a Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, 12-1 Shinkawa-tori, Kawasaki 210-0013, Japan
^b Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, 12-1 Shinkawa-tori, Kawasaki 210-0013, Japan
^c Department of Pathology, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, 12-1 Shinkawa-tori, Kawasaki 210-0013, Japan

Received 19 April 2002; received in revised form 17 June 2002; accepted 21 June 2002.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +81-45-4818833; fax: +81-44-2459600
e-mail: egukei{at}aol.com

We have experienced a case of angiosarcoma of the chest wall in a patient with fibrous dysplasia. The patient was a 64-year-old man and had large bilateral thoracic masses. Each tumor, resected metachronously with the chest wall, was diagnosed as angiosarcoma. One of these tumors had a histological component of fibrous dysplasia. The patient died from brain metastasis 19 months after the first operation. Angiosarcoma associated with fibrous dysplasia of the chest wall is very rare.

Key Words: Angiosarcoma • Fibrous dysplasia • Chest wall reconstruction