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Primary Pulmonary Fibrosarcoma With Bone Metastasis: a Successful Treatment With Post-Operation Adjuvant Chemotherapy
INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary fibrosarcoma has been an extremely rare tumor in children. Wide surgical resection of infantile fibrosarcoma would be the treatment of choice. CASE PRESENTATION: Post-operative chemotherapy has shown the benefit in the cases of residual disease after initial surgery and metas...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26413248 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijcp2328 |
Sumario: | INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary fibrosarcoma has been an extremely rare tumor in children. Wide surgical resection of infantile fibrosarcoma would be the treatment of choice. CASE PRESENTATION: Post-operative chemotherapy has shown the benefit in the cases of residual disease after initial surgery and metastatic disease in the literature. We have presented the case of a 70-days old male child with primary infantile fibrosarcoma of the left lung and distant metastasis of skull. CONCLUSIONS: The aim of this publication was to highlight the role of adjuvant chemotherapy to improve outcome of infantile fibrosarcoma with residual tumor and / or metastatic disease. |
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