BACKGROUND Synovial sarcoma is common in the extremities. Our search revealed only 17 cases of synovial sarcoma of the larynx in the English-language literature. CASE REPORT We report an additional case of a 37-year-old man with primary laryngeal synovial sarcoma who underwent positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) following the treatment. Although the patient received comp...

Extraskeletal Ewing’s Sarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumor that is morphologically indistinguishable from the more common Ewing’s sarcoma of the bone. Primitive Ewing’s sarcoma of the breast is exceptionally reported. We present the case of a 26-year-old woman with Ewing sarcoma/PNET diagnosed by molecular biology showing the specific t ranscr ipt of Ewing/ per ipheral pr imi t ive neuroectoderm...

Kaposi's sarcoma is a multifocal proliferative vascular tumor involving the skin and other organ and psoriasis is a chronic cutaneous disease with papules and plaques with white scale. Development of Kaposi's sarcoma in psoriasis patients has been reported rarely. A 71-year-old man presented with multiple brownish to violaceous plaques on both feet and arms which were found 4 months ago. The bi...

Dr Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Oncology, in the Section of Clinical Oncology, at Weston Park Hospital, Shef® eld, UK. He has been involved in the ® eld of sarcomas for 10 years and runs a sarcoma clinic at the above hospital. His other main area of interest is the treatment of head and neck cancer. He is chairman of the Local Treatment Group of the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma...

BACKGROUND Classical Kaposi sarcoma is a rare complication of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) infection. We conducted a population-based, frequency-matched case-control study in Sicily to further investigate the reported inverse relationship between smoking and classical Kaposi sarcoma and to identify other factors associated with altered risk. METHODS All incident, histological...

Preoperative diagnosis of uterine sarcoma is very difficult, and currently, its diagnostic accuracy is not satisfactory. It is therefore important to perform surgery and establish the pathological diagnosis if the clinical findings and various examination findings indicate possible uterine sarcoma. We investigated the accuracy of the combination of various types of predictors of uterine sarcoma...

Pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcoma is surgery without proven benefit, and in the light of a randomized controlled trial examining pulmonary colorectal cancer, it should be questioned.

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Sarcoma botryoides (embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma) rarely arises in the uterine cervix. We report a case of a 14-year-old female with sarcoma botryoides who presented with prolonged vaginal bleeding and cervical polyp. The biopsy specimen confirmed sarcoma botryoides. The patient underwent radical surgery of the tumor and hysterectomy without adjuvant chemotherapy. The sister of the patient had di...

Introduction: Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a very rare and aggressive type of sarcoma. Although its histology genetic characteristics have been identified, the benefits adjuvant radiotherapy for treatment are still being studied. Case presentation: In November 2007, 21-year-old woman presented with primary tumor in right thigh, histological immunohistochemical confirmation an alveolar sarcoma,...