Open AccessExtra osseous osteosarcoma of the retroperitoneum: An unusual entity
Author(s) -
Ranganath Ratnagiri,
Vivek Kumar Garg,
Rashmi Chaturvedi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.103524
Subject(s) - osteosarcoma , medicine , chemotherapy , abdomen , adjuvant chemotherapy , soft tissue , sarcoma , thorax (insect anatomy) , pathology , radiology , surgery , cancer , anatomy , breast cancer
Extra-osseous osteosarcomas constitute about 1-1.2% of all osteosarcomas. The most common sites are the extremities, thorax, and the abdomen. Retroperitoneal osteosarcomas are rare and very few cases have been reported. They are similar in their biology to high grade soft tissue sarcomas. R0 resection appears to be the best possible treatment for these tumors. All three variants of conventional osteosarcoma--osteoblastic, chondroblastic, and fibroblastic have been described in these tumors. Chemotherapy has been attempted with adriamycin-based regimens with poor results. Unlike extremity osteosarcomas, these tumors have been found to be chemoresistant. The 5 year survival has ranged from a dismal 12% to about 25%. We report a 46-year-old male who presented with a kidney tumor infiltrating the descending colon, but turned out to be an extra osseous osteosarcoma. An R0 resection was done and adjuvant chemotherapy given.