Ewing's sarcoma of the sternum necessitating complex resection and reconstruction

Gino Vissers; Lucas Van Houtven; Jérôme Corthouts; Annemie Snoeckx; Marloes Luijks; Filip Thiessen; Thierry Tondu; Paul Van Schil

doi:10.1080/23320885.2019.1598867

Ewing's sarcoma of the sternum necessitating complex resection and reconstruction

Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2019 Apr 15;6(1):125-130. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2019.1598867. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Gino Vissers^{1

2}, Lucas Van Houtven^{2

3}, Jérôme Corthouts^{1

2}, Annemie Snoeckx^{2

4}, Marloes Luijks⁵, Filip Thiessen^{1

2}, Thierry Tondu^{1

2}, Paul Van Schil^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
² Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Antwerp University, Wilrijk, Belgium.
³ Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Sint Augustinus Hospital, Wilrijk, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Pathological Anatomy and Cytology, Sint Augustinus Hospital, Wilrijk, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.

Abstract

We present a 30-year-old man with a sternal Ewing's sarcoma, who was treated by complex resection of the sternal body and reconstruction by a methyl methacrylate sandwich graft and a pedicled latissimus dorsi flap.

Keywords: Ewing’s sarcoma; latissimus dorsi flap; sternal reconstruction; sternal resection.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

No funding was received from any source with regards to the writing of this article.