Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report

INTRODUCTION: Soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors that often present with pain, increasing size and a location deep to the fascia. If they do not present with the aforementioned symptoms and signs, delayed diagnosis can occur. CASE REPORT: We present an unusual case of a 51-year-old patient who pre...

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Autores principales: Papageorgiou, Konstantinos, Goodwin, Peter, Travlos, John, Dramis, Asterios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915285
http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.2250-0685.1236
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author Papageorgiou, Konstantinos
Goodwin, Peter
Travlos, John
Dramis, Asterios
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description INTRODUCTION: Soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors that often present with pain, increasing size and a location deep to the fascia. If they do not present with the aforementioned symptoms and signs, delayed diagnosis can occur. CASE REPORT: We present an unusual case of a 51-year-old patient who presented with clinical features of a benign mass of the lower limb that turned out to be a soft tissue sarcoma - a leiomyosarcoma. CONCLUSION: Medical practitioners must consider the possibility of soft tissue sarcoma in patients that present with a benign looking mass. Diagnostic imaging can be inconclusive on these cases and definite diagnosis is made on histological examination. Treatment includes surgery and radiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-64243232019-03-26 Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Goodwin, Peter Travlos, John Dramis, Asterios J Orthop Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors that often present with pain, increasing size and a location deep to the fascia. If they do not present with the aforementioned symptoms and signs, delayed diagnosis can occur. CASE REPORT: We present an unusual case of a 51-year-old patient who presented with clinical features of a benign mass of the lower limb that turned out to be a soft tissue sarcoma - a leiomyosarcoma. CONCLUSION: Medical practitioners must consider the possibility of soft tissue sarcoma in patients that present with a benign looking mass. Diagnostic imaging can be inconclusive on these cases and definite diagnosis is made on histological examination. Treatment includes surgery and radiotherapy. Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6424323/ /pubmed/30915285 http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.2250-0685.1236 Text en Copyright: © Indian Orthopaedic Research Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Papageorgiou, Konstantinos
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Travlos, John
Dramis, Asterios
Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title_full Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title_fullStr Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title_short Leiomyosarcoma of the Lower Limb Presenting as a Benign Mass: A Case Report
title_sort leiomyosarcoma of the lower limb presenting as a benign mass: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915285
http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.2250-0685.1236
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