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Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report

We report a case of an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in a 73-year-old female, with a solitary lung metastasis involving the pericardium that progressed on first-line chemotherapy. Partial removal of the lesion was achieved after lingular segmentectomy, which required en-bloc pericardial resec...

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Autores principales: Al-Hajri, Thuraya, Chan, Jessica, Caudrelier, Jean-Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26918213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.445
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description We report a case of an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in a 73-year-old female, with a solitary lung metastasis involving the pericardium that progressed on first-line chemotherapy. Partial removal of the lesion was achieved after lingular segmentectomy, which required en-bloc pericardial resection due to deep pericardial invasion. However, the residual disease significantly grew despite second-line chemotherapy, and the tumor became unresectable due to near encasement of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Therefore, we opted for a salvage radical dose of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (60Gy in 25 fractions) to the pericardial lesion. No acute side effects were observed, and after three years of follow-up, good local control has been achieved with no significant late effects observed. This case suggests that radical radiotherapy using IMRT could be considered to treat sarcomatous pericardial lesions in patients who do not respond to chemotherapy and who are inoperable or non-resectable.
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spelling pubmed-47440722016-02-25 Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report Al-Hajri, Thuraya Chan, Jessica Caudrelier, Jean-Michel Cureus Radiation Oncology We report a case of an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in a 73-year-old female, with a solitary lung metastasis involving the pericardium that progressed on first-line chemotherapy. Partial removal of the lesion was achieved after lingular segmentectomy, which required en-bloc pericardial resection due to deep pericardial invasion. However, the residual disease significantly grew despite second-line chemotherapy, and the tumor became unresectable due to near encasement of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Therefore, we opted for a salvage radical dose of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (60Gy in 25 fractions) to the pericardial lesion. No acute side effects were observed, and after three years of follow-up, good local control has been achieved with no significant late effects observed. This case suggests that radical radiotherapy using IMRT could be considered to treat sarcomatous pericardial lesions in patients who do not respond to chemotherapy and who are inoperable or non-resectable. Cureus 2016-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4744072/ /pubmed/26918213 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.445 Text en Copyright © 2016, Al-Hajri et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title_full Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title_fullStr Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title_short Successful Salvage Radiotherapy for a Chemo-refractory, Non-resectable, Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Lung Metastasis with Pericardial Involvement: A Case Report
title_sort successful salvage radiotherapy for a chemo-refractory, non-resectable, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma lung metastasis with pericardial involvement: a case report
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26918213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.445
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