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Ann Thorac Surg 1992;54:774-776
© 1992 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Bilateral elastofibroma dorsi

Hans-Günther Machens, MD*, Ruth Mechtersheimer, MD, Ulrich Göhring, MD, Peter N. Schlag, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery and Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Accepted for publication January 15, 1992.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Machens, Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Medical School Hannover (MHH), Konstanty-Gutschow Str 8, 3000 Hannover 61, Germany.

Elastofibroma dorsi was diagnosed in a 76-year-old woman with bilateral subscapular tumor masses and a 3-year history of recurrent, right-sided scapular pain. A bilateral tumor extirpation was performed and the patient left the hospital free of symptoms 10 days later. We suggest that both constant trauma with resulting excessive elastin production and collagen degeneration might play a major role in the pathogenesis of this rare proliferative lesion.




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