Primary extraosseous intracranial Ewing's sarcoma: Case report and literature review

Ewing's sarcoma / peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors occur most often in bone and soft tissues of children and young adults. The intracranial manifestation of the disease is rare, and when present, this is often misdiagnosed with other varieties of primary brain tumors. We report such...

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Autores principales: Choudhury, Krishnangshu Bhanju, Sharma, Shyam, Kothari, Ramesh, Majumder, Anjali
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22174504
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.89798
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author Choudhury, Krishnangshu Bhanju
Sharma, Shyam
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Majumder, Anjali
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description Ewing's sarcoma / peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors occur most often in bone and soft tissues of children and young adults. The intracranial manifestation of the disease is rare, and when present, this is often misdiagnosed with other varieties of primary brain tumors. We report such a case of extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma, which was initially suspected to be a case of meningioma in an 11-year-old girl.
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spelling pubmed-32371782011-12-15 Primary extraosseous intracranial Ewing's sarcoma: Case report and literature review Choudhury, Krishnangshu Bhanju Sharma, Shyam Kothari, Ramesh Majumder, Anjali Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Ewing's sarcoma / peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors occur most often in bone and soft tissues of children and young adults. The intracranial manifestation of the disease is rare, and when present, this is often misdiagnosed with other varieties of primary brain tumors. We report such a case of extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma, which was initially suspected to be a case of meningioma in an 11-year-old girl. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3237178/ /pubmed/22174504 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.89798 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237178/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.89798
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