Diagnosis

In November 2009, the mass on the left thoracic wall was diagnosed as chondrosarcoma after taking radiographs and a fine needle aspirate. However, on Saturday 5^th June 2010, the original diagnosis of chondrosarcoma was doubted as the mass seemed to spread locally rather than systemically. It was noted that a biopsy would be required to confirm this rather than the fine needle aspirate which was performed previously (Alderson, 2010). After the thoracic mass was resected on Monday 13^th September 2010, it was sent to the Gribbles Laboratory to have the histopathology tested. The morphologic diagnosis came back as a chondrosarcoma with necrosis and haemorrhage (Gribbles Laboratories, 2010). The diagnostic imaging report also mentioned chondrosarcoma as one of the possibilities among other things such as ossifying fibrosarcoma, ossifying fibroma, ossifying neurofibroma or osteosarcoma (Warman, 2010).