Resection and reconstruction of a giant chest wall chondrosarcoma with synchronous lung metastases

Chondrosarcoma is the most common chest wall malignant lesion. In cases of chondrosarcoma surgery is the preferred type of treatment, because the tumor is resistant to radio- and chemotherapy. 10-year survival rate reaches 92% if wide resection with tumor-free margins could be performed. We present a case of a 50-year man admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery with complaints of painless swelling of the chest wall on the left, which has slowly begun to increase recently. Resection