PLEURAL METASTASIS OF A PEDIATRIC OSTEOSARCOMA

Port J Card Thorac Vasc Surg. 2022 Jan 4;28(4):55-57. doi: 10.48729/pjctvs.226.

Abstract

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor in children and young adults. Although osteosarcoma is a tumor with a great metastatic potential, mainly to the lung; pleural metastasis in patients with osteosarcoma are rarely reported. We present a case of 16 years-old male with a pleural metastasis of a tibial osteosarcoma diagnosed 4years earlier. He was submitted to a left thoracotomy and intra-operatively a pleural mass and a left upper lobe lesion was identified. Video-assisted resection of the extra-pulmonary mass and a wedge resection of the left upper lobe lesion was performed. The surgery was uneventful. The patient is clinically well, asymptomatic, maintains active surveillance.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bone Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Male
  • Osteosarcoma* / surgery
  • Thoracotomy
  • Young Adult