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Radiation‐induced extraskeletal osteosarcoma
Author(s) -
Alpert Laurence I.,
Abaci Ibrahim F.,
Werthamer Seymour
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197306)31:6<1359::aid-cncr2820310609>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - medicine , osteosarcoma , sarcoma , radiation therapy , neoplasm , radiology , nuclear medicine , pathology
A case history is presented of a 41‐year‐old woman who developed an extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the upper chest wall at the site of therapeutic irradiation for breast carcinoma 8 years previously. The relation of the sarcoma to the irradiation was supported by the coexistence of a profound radiation angiitis. The development of this neoplasm, despite the relatively low total radiation dosage, is distinctly unusual.