Conventional osteosarcoma of the rib: a case report

Abidin Şehitoğulları,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.185

Abidin Şehitoğulları¹, Gülay Bulut², Ufuk Çobanoğlu³, İrfan Bayram²

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
²Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey
³Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.185

Primary tumors of the rib are relatively uncommon in adults and rare in children. In this article, we present a case who was operated due to conventional osteosarcoma of the rib in the light of the literature review. A 17-year-old female patient had been operated due to a rib tumor 54 months ago. There was no local recurrence or metastatic disease. Chest wall tumors, particularly those arising from bones, require histologic assessment to be considered benign; the differential diagnosis of malignant neoplasms should not be based on clinical and radiographic features, only.

Keywords : Conventional osteosarcoma; resection; rib

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