Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma

Synovial sarcoma occurs predominantly in the soft tissues of the extremities, but is exceedingly rare in the mediastinum. It has overlapping histological and immunophenotypic features with other tumours in the differential diagnosis. We report a case of a patient who had an incidental finding of suc...

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Autores principales: Jeganathan, Reubendra, Davis, Richard, Wilson, Lorraine, McGuigan, James, Sidhu, Pushpinder
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Ulster Medical Society 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17476827
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author Jeganathan, Reubendra
Davis, Richard
Wilson, Lorraine
McGuigan, James
Sidhu, Pushpinder
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Davis, Richard
Wilson, Lorraine
McGuigan, James
Sidhu, Pushpinder
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description Synovial sarcoma occurs predominantly in the soft tissues of the extremities, but is exceedingly rare in the mediastinum. It has overlapping histological and immunophenotypic features with other tumours in the differential diagnosis. We report a case of a patient who had an incidental finding of such a tumour. Because of the rarity of this tumour in the mediastinum, optimal therapy is unknown and the prognosis remains guarded.
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spelling pubmed-20011312007-11-29 Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma Jeganathan, Reubendra Davis, Richard Wilson, Lorraine McGuigan, James Sidhu, Pushpinder Ulster Med J Case Report Synovial sarcoma occurs predominantly in the soft tissues of the extremities, but is exceedingly rare in the mediastinum. It has overlapping histological and immunophenotypic features with other tumours in the differential diagnosis. We report a case of a patient who had an incidental finding of such a tumour. Because of the rarity of this tumour in the mediastinum, optimal therapy is unknown and the prognosis remains guarded. The Ulster Medical Society 2007-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2001131/ /pubmed/17476827 Text en © The Ulster Medical Society, 2007
spellingShingle Case Report
Jeganathan, Reubendra
Davis, Richard
Wilson, Lorraine
McGuigan, James
Sidhu, Pushpinder
Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title_full Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title_fullStr Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title_full_unstemmed Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title_short Primary Mediastinal Synovial Sarcoma
title_sort primary mediastinal synovial sarcoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17476827
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