Osteosarcoma of the thoracic spine developed in a 15-year-old Japanese boy.. After his first admission with paralysis, multiple skeletal metastases were demonstrated in the absence of pulmonary metastasis. This rare condition may possibly be considered as a unicentric osteosarcoma with bone metastas
A small-cell osteosarcoma with multiple skeletal metastases
β Scribed by B. Sanjay; G. A. Raj; G. Vishwakarma
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Volume
- 107
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-3916
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β¦ Synopsis
A 10-year-old child presented with small-cell osteosarcoma of the proximal end of the tibia. Pulmonary metastases appeared after a gap of 9 months of ablative surgery, as did late multiple extra-pulmonary skeletal metastases, including the hand and foot bones after 6 months of pulmonary metastases. These late extrapulmonary metastases appear to be secondary to pulmonary metastases.
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