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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;25:1122-1123
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Lung cancer presenting as a giant tumor of the thoracic wall

^a Department of Surgery, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, NL-3300 AK Dordrecht, The Netherlands
^b Department of Pulmonology, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, NL-3300 AK Dordrecht, The Netherlands
^c Department of Radiology, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, NL-3300 AK Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Received 25 November 2003; received in revised form 24 January 2004; accepted 28 January 2004.

^* Corresponding author. Tel.: +31-78-654-1111; fax: +31-78-654-2264
e-mail: p.w.plaisier@asz.nl

Key Words: Lung cancer • Malignant tumor of the chest

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A 70-year-old man presented with a giant painless, left-sided, thoracic mass (Fig. 1) . Diagnostic imaging showed a large tumor with infiltration of the chest wall and erosion of adjacent ribs (Fig. . . . [Full Text of this Article]