Thoracic Research and Practice
Case report

Primary Ewing's Sarcoma of the Thoracic Spine Presenting with Pulmonary Nodule

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Department of Chest Diseases, Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey

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Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Center, Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Center, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Ufuk University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Ankara, Turkey

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Atatürk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Center, Department of Pathology, Ankara, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2003; 4: Turkish Respiratory Journal 138-141
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Primary ES of the spine may have a variety of appearances on imaging studies, and can mimic other diseases. A right thoracotomy and wedge resection was performed in a 28 year-old female patient with a pulmonary nodule. Pathological investigation showed this tumor to be Ewing’s sarcoma. This diagnosis led us to perform a radionuclide bone scan and thoracic MR, and on the basis of all findings primary ES of the thoracic spine was diagnosed. Although quite rare, ES should be included in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules.

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