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Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND: This review of the literature combined with a clinical case will allow the illustration of a favorable outcome of this variable low grade malignancy, display a role for limb salvage surgery with intralesional treatment, and offer a clinical example of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a...

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Autores principales: Plumby, Mark C., Bacaj, Patrick, Lindsey, Brock A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13569-018-0092-z
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Bacaj, Patrick
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description BACKGROUND: This review of the literature combined with a clinical case will allow the illustration of a favorable outcome of this variable low grade malignancy, display a role for limb salvage surgery with intralesional treatment, and offer a clinical example of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a rare malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: The case report presents a case of solitary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) of the calcaneus in a 60-year-old male. Primary vascular tumors of the bone are rare; however, EHE is one of the most common primary malignant vascular tumors to occur in bone. A review of the literature found few cases that involved the calcaneus; those cases found that involved the calcaneus were either part of a multifocal or metastatic disease process. Our case presents a 45-month clinical follow-up of solitary EHE in the calcaneus treated with surgical excision by curettage and cementing. CONCLUSION: This case has clinical follow-up greater than 2 years post-operatively and could be a guide for treatment of a rare disorder with a substantial paucity of literature.
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spelling pubmed-58872202018-04-09 Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature Plumby, Mark C. Bacaj, Patrick Lindsey, Brock A. Clin Sarcoma Res Case Report BACKGROUND: This review of the literature combined with a clinical case will allow the illustration of a favorable outcome of this variable low grade malignancy, display a role for limb salvage surgery with intralesional treatment, and offer a clinical example of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a rare malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: The case report presents a case of solitary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) of the calcaneus in a 60-year-old male. Primary vascular tumors of the bone are rare; however, EHE is one of the most common primary malignant vascular tumors to occur in bone. A review of the literature found few cases that involved the calcaneus; those cases found that involved the calcaneus were either part of a multifocal or metastatic disease process. Our case presents a 45-month clinical follow-up of solitary EHE in the calcaneus treated with surgical excision by curettage and cementing. CONCLUSION: This case has clinical follow-up greater than 2 years post-operatively and could be a guide for treatment of a rare disorder with a substantial paucity of literature. BioMed Central 2018-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5887220/ /pubmed/29632658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13569-018-0092-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Lindsey, Brock A.
Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title_full Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title_short Unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
title_sort unicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the calcaneus: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13569-018-0092-z
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