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Extraosseous osteosarcoma — two cases

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Two patients with extraosseous osteosarcoma of the gluteal region are presented. In one early case liquifaction of the tumour delayed the diagnosis due to confusion with a cold abscess. In the second patient the tumour developed in a region that had been subjected to post-operative radiotherapy for a uterine carcinoma seven years earlier. In both patients the tumour developed rapidly and with a fatal outcome only a few months after apparently satisfactory local excision.

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Présentation de deux malades porteurs d'un ostéosarcome extraosseux dans la région fessière. Le premier cas est remarquable du fait de la liquéfaction précoce de la tumeur, ce qui a posé des problèmes de diagnostic différentiel. Dans le second cas, la tumeur s'est développée au niveau d'une région concernée, sept années auparavant, par un traitement radiothérapique pour un carcinome utérin. L'évolution a été rapidement fatale, malgré une opérabilité apparente de la tumeur chez la seconde patiente.

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Milošević, D. Extraosseous osteosarcoma — two cases. International Orthopaedics 5, 43–45 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286098

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