Rapidly growing chest wall tumor of a pregnant woman: ewing’s sarcoma
Articles > Article · 2018
Authors: Ali ÖZDİL, ÖNDER KAVURMACI, Tevfik İlker AKÇAM, Taner AKALIN, SEDA AKGÜN KAVURMACI
Current Thoracic Surgery, Other Refereed National Journals, International, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), 2018, vol 3, pp 82-82
Summary
The incidence of coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy is approximately 1 in 1000-3000.Soft tissue sarcomas compose a very little portion of malignancies and Ewing's sarcoma is one of these tumors, which is very rare, and the most lethal of all.We report a 37-year-old female at gestational age of 23 weeks with a rapidly growing tumor on the right chest wall and managed with chest wall resection and reconstruction.The togetherness of pregnancy and Ewing's sarcoma is a rare entity and there is no exact information for treatment in the literature except a few case reports.