Low-Grade Myofibroblastic Sarcoma Arising From Keloid Scar on the Chest Wall After Thoracic Surgery

Yur Ren Kuo; Chih Kai Yang; Austin Chen; Savitha Ramachandran; Sin Daw Lin

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.063

Low-Grade Myofibroblastic Sarcoma Arising From Keloid Scar on the Chest Wall After Thoracic Surgery

Yur Ren Kuo^*
, Chih Kai Yang
, Austin Chen
, Savitha Ramachandran
, Sin Daw Lin

^*Corresponding author for this work

Kaohsiung Medical University
National Sun Yat-sen University
KK Women's and Children's Hospital

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Abstract

Keloids are considered as benign fibroproliferative skin tumors, and rare cases of malignancies have been reported. We present a case of low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma arising from a recurrent painful keloid scar on the right chest wall after video-assisted thoracic surgery for pneumothorax in a 77-year-old man. Wide composite excision of the keloid, surrounding ribs, and partial diaphragm were performed. The chest wall pleural defect was reconstructed with Teflon (Chemours, Wilmington, DE), and soft tissue was reconstructed with a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap. This case highlights that refractory keloids may be considered a harbinger of malignancy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e469-e471
Journal	Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Volume	110
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.063
State	Published - 12 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Low-Grade Myofibroblastic Sarcoma Arising From Keloid Scar on the Chest Wall After Thoracic Surgery

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