Computed tomography fi ndings of the progress of calcifi cation in extraskeletal osteosarcoma without calcifi cation derived from the pleura
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Hiroyuki Tokue, MD · Yoshito Tsushima, MD Keigo Endo, MD
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
An asymptomatic 77-year-old man presented with a mass in his right thoracic paravertebral region. Calcifi cation was not detected in the tumor on initial computed tomography. However, the tumor grew rapidly and calcifi cation subsequently appeared. Surgical resection was performed, and the histological diagnosis was extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the pleura. Only a few cases of primary pleural extraskeletal osteosarcoma have been reported in the literature, and there have been few descriptions of the imaging features. Extraskeletal osteosarcoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of older men with rapidly growing mass lesions derived from the pleura
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 59:447–450 DOI 10.1007/s11748-010-0701-0 Received: 29 May 2010 / Accepted: 30 August 2010
