2008 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 198-201
The patient was a 19-year-old man. He underwent chest wall resection and reconstruction for desmoid tumor of the right chest wall at another hospital in July 2001. After the operation, he didn't go to the hospital for treatment. In April 2005, an abnormal shadow was detected on his chest X-ray film. A CT scan showed an irregular tumor on the right chest wall from the second rib to the 7th rib around the previous operative scar. We performed an operation to remove the tumor with the chest wall and reconstruct the chest wall using an autogenous rib graft and Composix Mesh. The patient has remained well without sign of recurrence for one year and ten months after treatment.
