Open AccessPenile Sarcoma: Report of a Rare Malignancy
Author(s) -
Shiv Rajan,
Vijay Kumar,
Arun Chaturvedi,
Jeewan Ram Vishnoi,
P.K. Dontula
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/20315.8178
Subject(s) - penis , malignancy , sarcoma , penile cancer , medicine , spindle cell sarcoma , pathology , chemotherapy , rare disease , cancer , disease , dermatology , surgery
Penile cancer is an uncommon malignancy. Squamous cell carcinoma constitutes approximately 95% of all histology. Non-squamous malignancies are rare in penis. Sarcomas of penis are rarer among them. Spindle cell sarcoma is one of the extremely rare sarcoma of penis. To best of our knowledge, only two cases have been reported so far, one in English literature and other in Japanese. We are presenting this uncommon case of spindle cell sarcoma of penis, which was diagnosed with microscopy with its characteristic immunohistochemistry. The disease had an aggressive course with multiple recurrences in a short duration despite margin negative resection. Disease responded poorly with the chemotherapy and patient succumbed to the disease.