RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Primary extraskeletal mesenchymal chondrosarcoma arising from the iliac vein
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1058
OP 1061
DO 10.15537/smj.2017.10.20498
VO 38
IS 10
A1 Zhang, Hua
A1 Wang, Shuai
A1 Cheng, Zhihua
A1 Liu, Han
YR 2017
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/38/10/1058.abstract
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.