Chondrosarcoma is the third most common primary malignancy of bone, affecting primarily the pelvic and shoulder girdles and being extremely rare in the spine. Herein, we present a case of a 65-year-old woman with a rare chondrosarcoma of the spine, who presented with clinical symptoms from the...
Symptoms of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) due to a sacral tumor were not described in this series. Only two cases of a bone tumor initially presenting as DVT have been reported in the English literature. Tasci et al. [ 5 ] report a case of Ewing sarcoma of the fibula with venous ...
CHS mainly affects adults and occurs more often in people older than 40 years, in children and adolescents it is less than 5 % of all cases of primary CHS. The most common CHS sites can be any bone containing cartilage, but most often this tumor is found in pelvis, femur and shoulder ...
The extraskeletal sites involved were pleura, meninges, chest wall, nasal cavity and shoulder. The duration of symptoms varied from as low as 15 days to as long as 20 years. Of 5 cases of EMC full tumour specimens were received in three cases and biopsies were performed in 2 other cases...