Rapidly growing chest wall tumor of a pregnant woman: Ewing’s sarcoma
Ali Özdil1,Önder Kavurmacı2,Tevfik İlker Akçam1,Taner Akalın3,Seda Akgün Kavurmacı4
Current Thoracic Surgery
2018;3(2):082-084. (18 August 2018)
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
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The incidence of coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy is approximately 1 in 1000-3000. Soft tissue
sarcomas compose a very little portion of malignancies and Ewing’s sarcoma is one of these tumors,
which is very rare, and the most lethal of all. We report a 37-year-old female at gestational age of 23
weeks with a rapidly growing tumor on the right chest wall and managed with chest wall resection and
reconstruction. The togetherness of pregnancy and Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare entity and there is no exact
information for treatment in the literature except a few case reports.
Keywords :
Ewing’s sarcoma, pregnancy, chest wall
