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Ewing's sarcoma (ES) primarily affects bones and commonly presents in adolescents and young adults. This paper reports a rare case of extra osseous ES of the scapular region in a 9 years old girl. She was treated by a multidisciplinary approach including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She
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The complications of HIV/AIDS can produce grossly abnormal pathology. In low-resourced settings, women can present late with huge lesions. Massive vulval pathology copresenting in pregnancy produces difficulties in managing the patients and may lead to poor maternal or fetal
Myeloid sarcoma (MS) is an extramedullary myeloid neoplasm characterized by proliferation of myeloblasts which can occur in any organ or site. Bronchial and pulmonary involvement, however, is uncommon. We describe a case of bronchial MS in an 81-year-old female with a history of high-grade
Kaposi sarcoma usually occurs in immunosuppressed patients. A classic type has been reported in elderly men of Jewish and Mediterranean origin. We report a case of an elderly woman with giant cell arteritis (GCA) who developed Kaposi sarcoma while on a double blind trial for GCA with an
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Intensive treatment in oncology often leads to severe complications, including infection and coagulation disturbances. Among the most serious are fungal infections which are often life-threatening, and difficult to recognize and treat. We present a patient with severe pneumonia and
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Abnormal uterine bleeding is a common phenomenon in perimenarchal females. Though most cases of abnormal bleeding are due to anovulatory bleeding or bleeding disorders, rare cases are attributable to underlying malignancy.
METHODS
Here we report a 12-year-old female patient who presented
The stomach is a very unusual site of metastasis. Published reports on metastatic lesion in the stomach is generally limited to single case reports and case series. Gastric metastasis in an Ewing's sarcoma is extremely rare and has been reported in English literature but once to our knowledge. We
Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcomas (EES) are rare. Recently, Ewing's sarcoma of the bone, primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), Askin tumor and EES have been included into the family of Ewing's tumors, due to the overlapping features relating to their clinico-pathological and cytogenetic appearance.
Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare tumours carrying poor prognosis. Postradiation sarcoma has been reported in patients with breast, cervical and head and neck cancers. We report a case of a 56-year-old woman with stage IIA breast cancer diagnosed in 1997, submitted to mastectomy, adjuvant
Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is an uncommon and challenging condition comprising 10% of all uterine sarcomas and found in women 42-58 years of age. ESS is difficult to diagnose in young women as it masquerades as a leiomyoma. We report this tumour in a 20-year-old woman presenting with heavy
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We report a case of alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) of the tongue that presented in the third trimester of pregnancy.
METHODS
An 18-year-old, gravida 1, para 0, woman with ASPS of the tongue in the 31st week of pregnancy was described. Approximately 4 months after her first diagnosis,
Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma is a rare and aggressive malignant tumor with a poor prognosis. The pancreas is an extremely uncommon primary site, with only 27 cases that have been published worldwide. We report a 26-year-old female who presented with 5 days of left upper quadrant pain, nausea, and
A teen aged girl with rapidly developing pelvic mass, associated with weight loss and left leg weakness, was evaluated and found to have Ewing's sarcoma of non-osseous origin from pelvis, which is a rare situation. She was treated by a multidisciplinary approach by surgery, chemotherapy and
Extra-skeletal Ewing's sarcoma is among the rarest tumors in adults. The primary sites of the tumor dictates symptoms and signs, thus early treatments are compromised when more common tumors are lined up as differentials by the location. We present a case of a 35-year-old pregnant female who
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To describe a case of acute right ventricular dysfunction and hemodynamic collapse under general anesthesia in a patient undergoing resection of a pulmonary artery sarcoma.
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A 67-yr-old woman with a presumptive diagnosis of pulmonary embolism presented to the hospital with