Primary Ewing's Sarcoma of Frontoparietal Bone with Major Soft Tissue Extension: An Unusual Presentation and Review of the Literature
Author(s) -
Anshu Gupta,
Sachin Bansal,
Sujata Chaturvedi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
case reports in pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-6781
pISSN - 2090-679X
DOI - 10.1155/2012/713836
Subject(s) - medicine , scalp , pathology , skull , soft tissue , sarcoma , lesion , presentation (obstetrics) , histopathological examination , immunohistochemistry , ewing's sarcoma , stain , anatomy , radiology , staining
An 11-year-old girl presented with progressively increasing swelling in scalp of 8-month duration with no neurological deficit. Local examination showed a hard swelling that seemed to be arising from frontal bone. General and systemic examination was normal. MRI revealed a well-defined lytic lesion in left frontoparietal bone with a subgaleal component. The patient was operated upon and excision of tumor with reconstruction of skull was done. Histopathological examination showed a monomorphic small round cell tumor of bone infiltrating into the subcutaneous tissue. Immunohistochemical stain showed diffuse immunopositivity for MIC-2 in tumor cells, thus final diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma was made. The patient was kept for follow up for 3 months and had no symptoms.
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