Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit

Patient. We report a 22-year-old male presenting with extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the orbit. Discussion. Extra skeletal osteosarcomas are uncommon tumours, usually arising from the lower extremities or girdle. These are aggressive tumours with high metastatic potential and poor outcome. Optimal tr...

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Autores principales: Jacob, Rojymon, Abraham, Elizabeth, Jyothirmayi, Rema, Nair, Madhavan Krishnan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149878082
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author Jacob, Rojymon
Abraham, Elizabeth
Jyothirmayi, Rema
Nair, Madhavan Krishnan
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Abraham, Elizabeth
Jyothirmayi, Rema
Nair, Madhavan Krishnan
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description Patient. We report a 22-year-old male presenting with extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the orbit. Discussion. Extra skeletal osteosarcomas are uncommon tumours, usually arising from the lower extremities or girdle. These are aggressive tumours with high metastatic potential and poor outcome. Optimal treatment is undefined, and the role of radical surgery, radiotherapy and aggressive chemotherapy is currently being evaluated. The orbit is a rare site for extraskeletal osteosarcoma, with the only previous case reported in an 11-year-old male, who was irradiated in infancy for a retinoblastoma.
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spelling pubmed-23953842008-06-02 Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit Jacob, Rojymon Abraham, Elizabeth Jyothirmayi, Rema Nair, Madhavan Krishnan Sarcoma Research Article Patient. We report a 22-year-old male presenting with extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the orbit. Discussion. Extra skeletal osteosarcomas are uncommon tumours, usually arising from the lower extremities or girdle. These are aggressive tumours with high metastatic potential and poor outcome. Optimal treatment is undefined, and the role of radical surgery, radiotherapy and aggressive chemotherapy is currently being evaluated. The orbit is a rare site for extraskeletal osteosarcoma, with the only previous case reported in an 11-year-old male, who was irradiated in infancy for a retinoblastoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1998-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2395384/ /pubmed/18521243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149878082 Text en Copyright © 1998 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jacob, Rojymon
Abraham, Elizabeth
Jyothirmayi, Rema
Nair, Madhavan Krishnan
Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title_full Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title_fullStr Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title_full_unstemmed Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title_short Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma of the Orbit
title_sort extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the orbit
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577149878082
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