Current Thoracic Surgery
2019 , Vol 4 , Issue 2
A rare case of primary synovial sarcoma localized in the thoracic inlet
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medicana International Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
4Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey DOI : 10.26663/cts.2019.00019 Viewed : 3490 - Downloaded : 1360 A 33-year-old male patient was complaining about shoulder pain and swelling in his neck. The computed tomography of the patient revealed a mass lesion extending from the supraclavicular region to the upper level of the aortic arch. The patient was operated with the Grunenwald incision approaching from the anterior. The mass was separated from the tissues and totally excised. The histopathological examination reported a biphasic synovial sarcoma. Here we evaluated a very rare case of primary synovial sarcoma in the context of the literature, localized at the thoracic inlet and excised by the Grunenwald incision. Keywords : Grunenwald insicion, biphasic synovial sarcoma, thoracic inlet, sarcoma, spindle cell tumors