A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra

Synovial sarcoma of spine is an extremely rare malignancy with poor prognosis. It is often metastatic at the time of presentation. Its relative rarity and histological resemblance to other tumors make it diagnostically challenging, requiring the need of immunohistochemistry and cytogenetics for defi...

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Autores principales: Najib, Sana, Saleem, Tahmina, Nadhim, Ali, Sen, Shuvendu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2313927
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author Najib, Sana
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Sen, Shuvendu
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description Synovial sarcoma of spine is an extremely rare malignancy with poor prognosis. It is often metastatic at the time of presentation. Its relative rarity and histological resemblance to other tumors make it diagnostically challenging, requiring the need of immunohistochemistry and cytogenetics for definite diagnosis. Surgery is the mainstay of therapy with adjunct chemotherapy, although survival rates are very low.
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spelling pubmed-62764052018-12-23 A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra Najib, Sana Saleem, Tahmina Nadhim, Ali Sen, Shuvendu Case Rep Med Case Report Synovial sarcoma of spine is an extremely rare malignancy with poor prognosis. It is often metastatic at the time of presentation. Its relative rarity and histological resemblance to other tumors make it diagnostically challenging, requiring the need of immunohistochemistry and cytogenetics for definite diagnosis. Surgery is the mainstay of therapy with adjunct chemotherapy, although survival rates are very low. Hindawi 2018-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6276405/ /pubmed/30581471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2313927 Text en Copyright © 2018 Sana Najib et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra
title_full A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra
title_short A Rare Case of Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma of Thoracic Vertebra
title_sort rare case of monophasic synovial sarcoma of thoracic vertebra
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2313927
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