Brain is not always the last fortress; osteosarcoma with large brain metastasis
Fatma Rabah1, Nawal Al-Mashaikhi, Ismail Beshlawi
1Department of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman. fatmarabah@gmail.com
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
|November 10, 2012
Abstract:
Osteosarcomas are the most common malignant primary bone tumors in children and adolescents. Brain metastases of osteosarcoma are very rare and carry a dismal prognosis. We report a case of chondroblastic osteosarcoma of right humerus presented with right frontal lobe metastasis in a 10-year-old girl with small pulmonary lesions.


