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Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 8/2009

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Primary Hepatic Osteosarcoma

Authors: Atta Nawabi, Sidhartha Rath, Nicholas Nissen, Charles Forscher, Steven Colquhoun, Joseph Lee, Stephen Geller, Anna Wong, Andrew S. Klein

Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | Issue 8/2009

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Extraskeletal osteosarcoma (EOS) is a rare entity. Most human cases have been described in the soft tissues of the limb.1 Primary hepatic osteosarcoma is extremely uncommon with only seven cases reported in the world’s literature. Of these cases, no patient survived more than 8 weeks from the time of diagnosis. We describe a young patient with a symptomatic primary hepatic osteosarcoma that was successfully treated by surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy. She is alive and tumor free 3 years after surgery. …
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Metadata
Title
Primary Hepatic Osteosarcoma
Authors
Atta Nawabi
Sidhartha Rath
Nicholas Nissen
Charles Forscher
Steven Colquhoun
Joseph Lee
Stephen Geller
Anna Wong
Andrew S. Klein
Publication date
01-08-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery / Issue 8/2009
Print ISSN: 1091-255X
Electronic ISSN: 1873-4626
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-009-0852-4

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