Pleomorphic sarcoma. Case presentation

Authors

  • Enrique A Pancorbo Sandoval Hospital Militar Docente Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy. Matanzas, Cuba.
  • Alberto Delgado Quiñones Hospital Militar Docente Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy. Matanzas, Cuba.
  • Giraldo Díaz Prieto Hospital Militar Docente Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy. Matanzas, Cuba.
  • Justo Hernández Hernández Hospital Militar Docente Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy. Matanzas, Cuba.
  • Luis A. Pinto Contreras Hospital Provincial Docente Clínico Quirúrgico José Ramón López Tabrane. Servicios de Oncología. Matanzas, Cuba.

Keywords:

pleomorphic sarcoma, right thigh, tumor removal, multidiscipline treatment.

Abstract

The case of a male patien aged 36 years is presented. The clinical characteristics are the following: after a light trauma, he had fever, pain, temperature increase in the right thigh. It was diagnosed as a possible abscessed hematoma and the patient was admitted in the hospital and surgically treated. After discharging and two-months evolution, he came back to the hospital presenting a torpid evolution with a tumoral-kind volume increase. He was readmitted, studied and evaluated by a team of multidiscipline specialists, deciding a new surgical intervention based on the laboratory and imaging studies. Tumor was removed (at the level of external vastus) with oncological edge and send to pathologic anatomy. An adjuvant chemotherapeutic treatment was applied later. Currently, the patient has survived 10 years and is totally asymptomatic.

 

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Published

2016-01-13

How to Cite

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Pancorbo Sandoval EA, Delgado Quiñones A, Díaz Prieto G, Hernández Hernández J, Pinto Contreras LA. Pleomorphic sarcoma. Case presentation. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2016 Jan. 13 [cited 2025 Jan. 22];38(1):97-104. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/1412

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Presentation of cases

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