A Primary Dumbbell-Shaped Cervical Extraskeletal Ewing’s Sarcoma in an Adult: A Case Report and Literature Review

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Fred Bteich Ronald Moussa

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Fred Bteich
Neurosurgery Department, Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, Achrafieh, Lebanon

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Dumbbell spinal tumors get their hourglass or dumbbell shape from being constricted in the middle, with one part inside the spinal canal and the other extending outside of it. This is the case of a 37-year-old female who presented to the clinic with a left cervicobrachialgia and acroparesthesia. While radiographic imaging initially reported a well-defined dumbbell-shaped C7-T1 foraminal tumor consistent with a neurinoma, the pathology report obtained after surgical intervention came back positive for Ewing’s sarcoma, with no other locations of the tumor. The diagnosis was unexpected given the shape of the tissue and the rarity of the extraskeletal form of Ewing’s sarcoma (EES). Only 4 previous cases to date have identified a primary cervical dumbbell-shaped extraskeletal Ewing’s sarcoma in adults.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Sat 23, May 2020
Accepted: Sat 06, Jun 2020
Published: Tue 16, Jun 2020

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© 2023 Fred Bteich. 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.SCR.2020.06.13