Urgent resection of bleeding congenital mesenchymal chest wall hamartoma in an infant

Urgent resection of bleeding congenital mesenchymal chest wall hamartoma in an infant

We report a case with prenatally diagnosed large cystic-solid mesenchymal chest wall hamartoma. An attempt of conservative management was made however repeated intralesional hemorrhage led to enlargement and severe anemia which required urgent resection at the age of 8 weeks. The infant had an uni...

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Main Authors: Bieda, Jan-Christoph, Tröbs, Ralf-Bodo, Roll, Claudia, Wunsch, Rainer, Neid, Matthias
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2013-10-01
Series:GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW
Subjects:
mesenchymal hamartoma
congenital chest wall tumor
surgery
intralesional bleeding
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/iprs/2013-2/iprs000032.shtml

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