%0 Journal Article
%T Alternativas quir¨²rgicas en el tratamiento de los tumores de la pared tor¨˘cica
%A Guzm¨˘n-Toro
%A Fernando
%J Revista Venezolana de Oncolog¨Şa
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the chest wall tumors are neoplasm with a low frequency and they are of difficult in the treatment. four patients with chest wall neoplasm were operated in the universitary hospital from maracaibo between 2005 at 2008 with the diagnoses of plasmacytoma in two patients and chondrosarcoma in two patients. the surgical procedures for us performed were: chest wall tumor resection and mesh interposition in three patients and sternum tumor resection with interposition of mesh with methyl methacrylate in one patient. the postoperatory evolution was satisfactory in three patients and the patient with the reconstruction using mesh and methyl methacrylate had the displacement of the mesh after of a year of the surgical procedure. it is very important in the patients with chest wall tumors an adequate preoperatory evaluation with the objective of reduces the mortality and morbidity postoperatory and obtains better surgical and functional results.
%K cancer
%K tumors
%K chest
%K wall
%K mesh
%K plasmacytoma
%K chondrosarcoma.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-05822010000300002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en