Rare Presentation of Metachronous Multicentric Pelvic and Extracranial Chondrosarcoma : A Case Report

Conventional chondrosarcomas rarely metastasize and it is extremely unusual to see multicentric- behaviour in malignant cartilage tumour. We report a 40 year old lady with presentation of two non-contiguous metachronous foci of low to intermediate grade of chondrosarcoma over left pelvic bone and ri...

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Autores principales: Choong, CYL, Chan, HZ, Azuhairy, A, Hau, M Anwar, Zulkiflee, O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279096
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1407.006
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Sumario:Conventional chondrosarcomas rarely metastasize and it is extremely unusual to see multicentric- behaviour in malignant cartilage tumour. We report a 40 year old lady with presentation of two non-contiguous metachronous foci of low to intermediate grade of chondrosarcoma over left pelvic bone and right scalp respectively in the absence of pulmonary or visceral metastasis. KEY WORDS: vacuum assisted closure, infection, instrumentation, spine

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