Groskin S A, McCrohan G
Department of Radiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse 13210.
J Thorac Imaging. 1994 Summer;9(3):169-71. doi: 10.1097/00005382-199422000-00010.
A 21-year-old woman with a high-grade soft-tissue sarcoma developed a lesion in the soft tissues of her chest wall at the same time that she developed pulmonary metastases from her primary neoplasm. The chest wall lesion diminished in size on sequential computed tomography (CT) scans, indicating that it was a pseudometastasis caused by removal of the patient's indwelling Hickman catheter. Awareness that removal of tunneled central venous catheters can produce soft-tissue masses in the chest wall that may mimic metastases may prevent inappropriate staging and treatment of these patients.
一名患有高级别软组织肉瘤的21岁女性，在其原发性肿瘤出现肺转移的同时，胸壁软组织出现了一个病灶。在连续的计算机断层扫描（CT）中，胸壁病灶的大小减小，表明这是因拔除患者留置的希克曼导管所致的假转移。认识到拔除隧道式中心静脉导管可在胸壁产生可能酷似转移灶的软组织肿块，有助于避免对这些患者进行不恰当的分期和治疗。
