A rare chest wall tumor: an infiltrating angiolipoma

Halil Tözüm; Erhan Sarıtekin; Şahin Erdem

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.6097

Halil Tözüm¹, Erhan Sarıtekin², Şahin Erdem³

¹Medeniyet Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Göztepe Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, İstanbul, Türkiye
²Lüleburgaz Devlet Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, Kırklareli, Türkiye
³Ağrı Devlet Hastanesi, Patoloji Kliniği, Ağrı, Türkiye

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.6097

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The postoperative histopathologic examination of the patient who was operated with the preliminary diagnosis of intrathoracic extrapulmonary chest wall tumor was reported as an infiltrative angiolipoma. In this article, we present a 35-year-old female case with an infiltrating angiolipoma, as no similar case is present in the literature and we think it is rarely seen.

Keywords : Angiolipoma; chest wall resection; intrathoracic extrapulmonary chest wall tumors; lipoma

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