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Oct, 2011

Chondroblastoma with pulmonary metastasis in a patient presenting with spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax: Report of a case

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  • Masaya Tamura
  • ,
  • Makoto Oda
  • ,
  • Isao Matsumoto
  • ,
  • Seiko Sawada-Kitamura
  • ,
  • Go Watanabe

Volume
41
Number
10
First page
1439
Last page
1441
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1007/s00595-010-4469-8
Publisher
SPRINGER

Chondroblastoma is a benign bone tumor with a relatively high incidence in older children and adolescents. Although it is generally regarded as a benign neoplasm, it sometimes grows aggressively or recurs but rarely metastasizes to the lung. We herein present a very rare case of a bilateral pneumothorax due to a pulmonary metastasis from a chondroblastoma. A 21-year-old man developed a bilateral pneumothorax 20 months after an operation for a chondroblastoma of the right ischium. A pertinent literature review revealed similar cases of chondroblastoma with pulmonary metastasis, but revealed no reports of a pneumothorax caused by a metastatic chondroblastoma.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-010-4469-8
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21922374
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000294961000022&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1007/s00595-010-4469-8
  • ISSN : 0941-1291
  • Pubmed ID : 21922374
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000294961000022

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