PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zhang, Hua
AU  - Wang, Shuai
AU  - Cheng, Zhihua
AU  - Liu, Han
TI  - Primary extraskeletal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma arising from the iliac vein
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2017.10.20498
DP  - 2017 Oct 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 1058--1061
VI  - 38
IP  - 10
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/10/1058.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/10/1058.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2017 Oct 01; 38
AB  - The iliac vein is an extremely rare site for mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, and patients with primary extraskeletal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma arising from a vein always suffer a very poor prognosis. We report a case of a 45-year-old female who presented with a 5-month history of left leg edema in 2015. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed a large mass in the left iliac vein with scattered calcifications. Wide-margin resection was performed, and histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses confirmed the presence of intraluminal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma with local invasion out of the vein wall. Due to poor patient compliance, postoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy were not started, and a bone scan performed 16 weeks postoperatively showed multiple bone metastases. The patient died on the twenty-fourth postoperative week.