Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: hest wall resection and reconstruction using titanium micromesh covered with Marlex mesh for metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Chest wall resection and reconstruction using titanium micromesh covered with Marlex mesh for metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma a case report Nobuyasu Suganuma Nobuyuki Wada Hiromasa Arai Hirotaka Nakayama Keita Fujii Katsuhiko Masudo Norio Yukawa Yasushi Rino Munetaka Masuda and Toshio Imada Address Department of Surgery Yokohama City University Hospital and Medical Center Fukuura Kanazawa Yokohama Kanagawa Japan Email NS - n-suga@ NW - wada523@ HA- harai@ HN - h-nak@ KF - kfujii@ KM - masudo@ NY - yukawa@ YR - rino@ MM - mmasuda@ TI - timada@ Corresponding author Received 29 September 2008 Accepted 22 January 2009 Published 8 June 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 7259 doi 1752-1947-3-7259 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 7259 2009 Suganuma et al licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The distant metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinomas are often untreatable. In particular bone metastasis is significantly related to poor prognosis since radioactive iodine therapy is generally less effective. Therefore surgical resection is considered one of the treatments for patients with bone metastases. We report chest wall resection and reconstruction using titanium micromesh covered with polypropylene mesh Marlex mesh for metastatic rib bones as a result of follicular thyroid carcinoma. Case presentation A 51-year-old man was referred to our institution
