Persistent Shoulder Pain in Young Male: Osteosarcoma

A 16-year-old Malay boy presented to Kota Bharu Health Care Centre, Kelantan, with left shoulder pain after sustaining a fall. On further history taking, it was noted that the pain preceded the fall by 1 month. The early changes of osteosarcoma were visible on an X-ray during the initial presentatio...

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Autores principales: Arinima, Punitha, Ishak, Azlina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29972896
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.17.0117
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description A 16-year-old Malay boy presented to Kota Bharu Health Care Centre, Kelantan, with left shoulder pain after sustaining a fall. On further history taking, it was noted that the pain preceded the fall by 1 month. The early changes of osteosarcoma were visible on an X-ray during the initial presentation; however, this was missed by the primary care doctors. Three months later, the patient presented with persistent pain in the left shoulder and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-60564092018-08-08 Persistent Shoulder Pain in Young Male: Osteosarcoma Arinima, Punitha Ishak, Azlina Korean J Fam Med Case Report A 16-year-old Malay boy presented to Kota Bharu Health Care Centre, Kelantan, with left shoulder pain after sustaining a fall. On further history taking, it was noted that the pain preceded the fall by 1 month. The early changes of osteosarcoma were visible on an X-ray during the initial presentation; however, this was missed by the primary care doctors. Three months later, the patient presented with persistent pain in the left shoulder and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2018-07 2018-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6056409/ /pubmed/29972896 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.17.0117 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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