Neoplasms of the Bony Thoracic Wall

Abstract

A number of efforts have been made to collect the available reported cases of tumors of the thoracic wall. In I933, Hedblom39 gathered-29I cases, including those reported by himself37 in I92I, and added 22 additional personal cases. In reviewing the original reports of the collected tumors in his39 paper of I933, it was noted that histologic diagnoses had not been made on a number of the tumors, some of which had been treated by roentgenotherapy, without biopsy. In his earlier paper Hedblom37 included a number of instances of tumors metastatic to the bony thoracic wall, and in both papers did not present, in detail, all his own cases, but gave only statistical data concerning the majority of them. It is not possible, moreover, in many of the earlier reports to evaluate the nature of the neoplasm described. In spite of the difficulty of determining accurately the nature and number 51

Chest Wall Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors: Long-Term Outcomes

“…The first description of Ewing tumor of the chest wall was by Sommer and Major in 1942 (9). It was subsequently characterized as a distinct clinicopathologic entity involving the rib by Askin et al in 1979 (10).…”