Inverted Intercostal Hernia of Soft Tissue Manifested as Slow-Growing Chest Wall Tumor After Thoracotomy Takashi Iwata, MD, PhD, Takashi Yasuoka, MD, Shoji Hanada, MD, Yasuo Suehiro, MD, Akimitsu Nishibayashi, MD, Kazushige Inoue, MD, PhD, Yasuhiko Kobayashi, MD, PhD, Hiroki Mizoguchi, MD, Takuya Miura, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 1355-1357 (October 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.042 Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Chest radiograph shows well-demarcated soft tissue mass (arrows) in the widened fifth intercostal space. (B) Chest computed tomography scan demonstrates a convex lens–shaped chest wall mass (arrows). (C) Positron emission tomography scan exhibits an area with low F-deoxyglucose accumulation in the right posterior chest wall (arrows). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 1355-1357DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.042) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions