An operated case of locally recurrent desmoid tumor in chest wall

Abstract

We report a re-operated case of locally recurrent desmoid tumor in the chest wall. A 51-year -old woman, who had been operated on for a tumor in the right supraclavicular fossa three years before, complained of warmth and pain in her right arm and was admitted to our hospital. As the recurrence of the previous tumor, re-operation was performed. A mass, 78 g in weight, was excised en bloc with a previous artificial vessel. The right subclavian artery was rereconstructed using another artificial vessel. Pathological examinations revealed the findings of recurrence of extra-abdominal desmoid tumor. The principle of treatment of locally recurrent desmoid tumors in the chest wall is also considered to be aggressive wide resection.