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Extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the lung following treatment of primary small‑cell lung carcinoma with chemoradiotherapy: A case report
- Source :
- Molecular and Clinical Oncology.
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Spandidos Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- Primary pulmonary osteosarcoma is a rare entity, with only a few cases reported in the literature to date. Moreover, secondary extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the lung following chemoradiotherapy is extremely rare and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case. We herein present the case of an 80-year-old male patient with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), who developed what it was initially considered as recurrence of the tumor after chemoradiotherapy. The patient eventually succumbed to the disease, and on autopsy it was discovered that the lung tumor was not in fact SCLC, but rather a secondary osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma metastasis to the lung is very rare, but must be considered in the differential diagnosis when there is relapse following treatment for primary SCLC.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
0301 basic medicine
Oncology
Cancer Research
Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma
medicine.medical_specialty
Metastasis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine
Lung cancer
neoplasms
business.industry
Cancer
Articles
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
030104 developmental biology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Osteosarcoma
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Differential diagnosis
business
Chemoradiotherapy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20499469 and 20499450
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Molecular and Clinical Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5fd85d4c92b4814d896b63ae018d7e5e