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01-08-2009 | GI Image
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
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Issue 8/2009
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Excerpt
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. …