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Published on: October 28, 2021
Isolated subcutaneous metastasis of osteosarcoma 5 years after initial diagnosis
Israel Fernandez-Pineda1, Armita Bahrami, James F Green
1Department of Surgery, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-3678, USA. israel.fernandez@stjude.org
Abstract:
The pediatric malignancies most likely to metastasize to the skin are neuroblastoma, leukemia, and rhabdomyosarcoma. Cutaneous and subcutaneous metastases from osteosarcoma are extremely rare, with only a few cases reported in pediatric patients with multifocal synchronous osteosarcoma. We describe the case of a 19-year-old woman with a single subcutaneous nodule of the abdominal wall that, on histologic evaluation, proved to be a metastatic high-grade osteosarcoma 5 years after her initial diagnosis.
