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Case Reports

Hemangioma of the Sternum

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
^b Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey

Accepted for publication April 28, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Onat, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Diyarbakir, 21280, Turkey (Email: onatserdar21{at}hotmail.com).

Primary tumors of the sternum are rare and most of them are malignant. Benign lesions are typically chondromas, bone cysts, or hemangiomas. Among these tumors, hemangiomas are extremely rare. We report a rare case of hemangioma of the sternum. The patient was successfully treated with complete resection of the tumor and sternum stability was obtained by polypropylene mesh and methylmethacrylate.

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