Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report

BACKGROUND: We add a new rare illustrative case of osteosarcoma of the larynx to the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient (man; 56 years old) first underwent several biopsies, followed in the end by a total laryngectomy. Diagnosis was histological. The patient developed regional and distant me...

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Autores principales: Mottola, Giampiero, Cascone, Anna Maria, Cavaliere, Matteo, Angrisani, Basilio, Fiorillo, Gabriella, Parente, Giuseppe, Volino, Fabrizio, Iemma, Maurizio
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19046454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-365
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author Mottola, Giampiero
Cascone, Anna Maria
Cavaliere, Matteo
Angrisani, Basilio
Fiorillo, Gabriella
Parente, Giuseppe
Volino, Fabrizio
Iemma, Maurizio
author_facet Mottola, Giampiero
Cascone, Anna Maria
Cavaliere, Matteo
Angrisani, Basilio
Fiorillo, Gabriella
Parente, Giuseppe
Volino, Fabrizio
Iemma, Maurizio
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description BACKGROUND: We add a new rare illustrative case of osteosarcoma of the larynx to the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient (man; 56 years old) first underwent several biopsies, followed in the end by a total laryngectomy. Diagnosis was histological. The patient developed regional and distant metastases and died of disease after 3 months from surgery. CONCLUSION: Osteosarcoma of the larynx is a rare and aggressive tumour with a poor long-term prognosis. The preferred treatment for this tumour is aggressive surgery. To perform a diagnosis we must be in presence of osteoid or of neoplastic osseous tissue directly produced by the neoplastic cells.
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spelling pubmed-26211312009-01-13 Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report Mottola, Giampiero Cascone, Anna Maria Cavaliere, Matteo Angrisani, Basilio Fiorillo, Gabriella Parente, Giuseppe Volino, Fabrizio Iemma, Maurizio Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: We add a new rare illustrative case of osteosarcoma of the larynx to the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient (man; 56 years old) first underwent several biopsies, followed in the end by a total laryngectomy. Diagnosis was histological. The patient developed regional and distant metastases and died of disease after 3 months from surgery. CONCLUSION: Osteosarcoma of the larynx is a rare and aggressive tumour with a poor long-term prognosis. The preferred treatment for this tumour is aggressive surgery. To perform a diagnosis we must be in presence of osteoid or of neoplastic osseous tissue directly produced by the neoplastic cells. BioMed Central 2008-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2621131/ /pubmed/19046454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-365 Text en Copyright © 2008 Mottola et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mottola, Giampiero
Cascone, Anna Maria
Cavaliere, Matteo
Angrisani, Basilio
Fiorillo, Gabriella
Parente, Giuseppe
Volino, Fabrizio
Iemma, Maurizio
Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
title Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
title_full Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
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title_full_unstemmed Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
title_short Osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
title_sort osteosarcoma of the larynx: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19046454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-365
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