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A 65-year-old woman with a painless subcutaneous mass in the anterior aspect of the knee was referred to our hospital for a second opinion. The lesion had recurred twice. The pathological diagnosis was glomangiosarcoma. It is a rare malignant tumor with a tendency to local invasion and recurrence after excision. The tumoral extension evaluation revealed no other lesions. Physical examination showed a transverse excision scar of 10 cm along with a palpable mass adhered to the skin. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a mass adjacent to the patellar tendon with both cutaneous and patellar tendon infiltration.
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Sanchis-Alfonso, V., Roselló-Añón, A., Villaverde-Doménech, E., Sanmartin, O., Aracil-Kessler, J.P. (2023). Case # 8: Extensor Mechanism Reconstruction After Resection of a Soft Tissue Sarcoma that Infiltrates the Patellar Tendon. In: Sanchis-Alfonso, V. (eds) Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09767-6_49
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