Rectus Abdominis Muscle Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma Causing a Large Abdominal Wall Defect: Reconstruction with Biological Mesh | Zendy

Evangelos Falidas | Zendy; Stavros Gourgiotis | Zendy; Christina Goudeli | Zendy; Stavros Mathioulakis | Zendy; Konstantinos Vlachos | Zendy; Constantinos Villias | Zendy

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Rectus Abdominis Muscle Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma Causing a Large Abdominal Wall Defect: Reconstruction with Biological Mesh

Author(s) -

Evangelos Falidas,

Stavros Gourgiotis,

Christina Goudeli,

Stavros Mathioulakis,

Konstantinos Vlachos,

Constantinos Villias

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

case reports in surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6900

pISSN - 2090-6919

DOI - 10.1155/2014/723851

Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal wall , rectus abdominis muscle , abdominal muscles , abdominal wall defect , surgery , hernia , abdominal hernia , soft tissue , surgical mesh , anatomy

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is a common soft tissue sarcoma usually involving limbs and retroperitoneum. MFH of the rectus abdominis muscle is extremely rare. Surgery in similar cases leads to large abdominal wall defects needing reconstruction. Biological and synthetic laminar absorbable prostheses are available for the repair of hernia defects in the abdominal wall. They share the important feature of being gradually degraded in the host, resulting the formation of a neotissue. We herein report the case of an 84-year-old man with MFH of the rectus abdominis muscle which was resected and the large abdominal wall defect was successfully repaired with a biological mesh.

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