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Resection of a Chest Chondrosarcoma Invading the Spine and the Aorta

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Abstract

A 34-year-old man presented with a large chondrosarcoma of the chest invading six ribs and the vertebral bodies of five adjacent thoracic vertebrae. En bloc resection of the tumor with six ribs, the anterior part of five vertebral bodies, and the thoracic aorta was performed through a thoracotomy and a paravertebral incision.

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In recent years, aggressive surgical behavior has been advocated for large chest wall tumors invading adjacent structures 1, 2, 3, 4. Today the prognosis of patients with chondrosarcoma in whom complete resection of the tumor has been achieved is relatively good. With curative resection, the 5-year survival can reach 70% 5, 6. Burt and associates [6], in a series of 88 patients with chondrosarcoma, demonstrated that the significant adverse prognostic factors were the presence of metastases, age

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