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W. Hajjar, Y. El-Medany, M. A. Essa, M. A. Rafay, M. H. Ashour and K. M. Al-Kattan, “Unusual Presentation of rib Exostosis,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2003, pp. 575-577. doi:10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04326-6

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• TITLE: Unusual Case of Pneumothorax Caused by Costal Osteochondroma

  AUTHORS: Rahul Vemula, Sarav Shah, Lournes J. Willekes II

  KEYWORDS: Osteochondroma; VATS; Thoracoscopy; Thoracic Oncology

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery, Vol.2 No.4, December 11, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Osteochondroma is the most common benign cartilage tumor. Although, most lesions are asymptomatic, life-threatening conditions caused osteochondromas have been reported in the literature such pneumothorax, hemothorax, diaphragmatic rupture, and lung injury. We report a case of a thirty year old male who presented with shortness of breath and was found to have a pneumothorax on chest X-ray. Subsequent Computed Tomography of the chest revealed a 1.3 cm growth on the posterior portion of the fourth right rib protruding into the right middle lobe. The patient underwent thoracoscopic resection of the lesion along with a wedge resection of the right middle lobe. The rib was reconstructed using a metal plate. He remains asymptomatic without recurrence on a one year follow up.