chest wall mass

Etiology

• neoplasm vs infection
• benign neoplasms
  • osteochondroma
  • fibrous dysplasia
  • chondroma
• malignant
  • chondrosarcoma
  • Askin tumor
  • osteosarcoma
  • plasmacytoma
  • lymphoma
• infections
  • bacterial infection
    • Staphylococcus aureus,
    • Streptococcus
    • Pseudomonas
    • Actinomyces
    • Nocardia
    • soft tissue infections/abscesses are often polymicrobial
  • Fungal infection
    • Aspergillus

Epidemiology

• primary chest wall neoplasms account for only 5% of all thoracic neoplasms
• ~60% of primary chest wall tumors are malignant

More general terms

• mass lesion