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Central Type of Chondrosarcoma with a Fulminant Course – A Case Report
Dubravka Matanić
; University of Rijeka, Rijeka University Hospital Center, Department of Pulmology, Rijeka, Croatia
Melita Kukuljan
; University of Rijeka, Rijeka University Hospital Center, Department of Radiology, Rijeka, Croatia
Emina Grgurević
; University of Rijeka, Rijeka University Hospital Center, Department of Radiology, Rijeka, Croatia
Bojan Miletić
; Opatija Thalassotherapia, Opatija, Croatia
Veljko Flego
; University of Rijeka, Rijeka University Hospital Center, Department of Pulmology, Rijeka, Croatia
Damir Muhvić
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Immunology, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Primary chondrosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor. The five types of chondrosarcomas are: central, peripheral, mesenchymal, differentiated and clear cell. The classic chondrosarcomas are central (arising within a bone) or peripheral (arising from the surface of a bone). We describe a patient with central chondrosarcoma of the humerus who underwent surgery and only two weeks later presented with multiple metastases of the lung and small pulmonary tumor embolisms mimicking bilateral pneumonic infiltrates. Therefore, such a fulminant course of central chondrosarcoma, which is not described so far, must be taken into consideration during the treatment of patients with primary chondrosarcoma.
Keywords
primary chondrosarcoma; central chondrosarcoma; multiple metastases of the lung; pulmonary tumor embolisms; fulminant course
Hrčak ID:
90896
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Publication date:
5.10.2012.
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