Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma in the Thigh Recognized Following Acute Traumatic Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Aboubacar S. Sangaré Hope Jean Marie Vianney Serge Ntungwanayo J. Claude Sane

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Hope Jean Marie Vianney
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rwanda Military Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda

A B S T R A C T

Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is a rare mesenchymal malignancy arising in soft tissue that produces osteoid, neoplastic bone, or chondroid material without demonstrable attachments to bone or periosteum. We report an instructive case of extraskeletal osteosarcoma in a 42-year-old woman recognized following acute traumatic injury of her left thigh.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 09, Nov 2020
Accepted: Wed 09, Dec 2020
Published: Thu 24, Dec 2020

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© 2023 Hope Jean Marie Vianney. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COCB.2020.02.03