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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Benign chest wall tumors are uncommon lesions that originate from blood vessels, nerves, bone, cartilage, or fat. Chest radiography is an important technique for evaluation of such tumors, especially those that originate from bone, because it can depict mineralization and thus indicate the diagnosis. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are helpful in further delineating the location and extent of the tumor and in identifying tumor tissues and types. Although the radiologic manifestations of benign and malignant chest wall tumors frequently overlap, differences in characteristic location and appearance occasionally allow a differential diagnosis to be made with confidence. Such features include the presence of mature fat tissue with little or no septation (lipoma), the presence of phleboliths and characteristic vascular enhancement (cavernous hemangioma), evidence of neural origin combined with a targetlike appearance on MR images (neurofibroma), well-defined continuity of cortical and medullary bone with the site of origin (osteochondroma), or fusiform expansion and ground-glass matrix (fibrous dysplasia). Both aneurysmal bone cysts and giant cell tumors typically manifest as expansile osteolytic lesions and occasionally show fluid-fluid levels suggestive of diagnosis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1527-1323
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright RSNA, 2003
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1477-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Chest wall tumors: radiologic findings and pathologic correlation: part 1. Benign tumors.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center Hospital and Institute, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-Ku, 104-0045, Tokyo, Japan. utateish@ncc.go.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't