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Case Reports
. 2013 Apr 30:7:312.
doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2013.312. Print 2013.

Primary extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the lung in children

Nidal Alsit  1 , Clara Fernandez, Jean Luc Michel, Linda Sakhri, Audrey Derouet, Augustin Pirvu
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Case Reports

Primary extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the lung in children

Nidal Alsit et al. Ecancermedicalscience. .

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Abstract

We report a case of primary extraosseous Ewing sarcoma (EES) of the lung in a four-year-old child. In the literature, there are only a few case reports of EES located in the thorax.

Keywords: extraosseous Ewing sarcoma; lung tumor in children.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:. CT scan: coronal reconstruction of a left lung mass (arrow)
Figure 2:
Figure 2:. CT scan: (A) cystic tumour in the middle of left lung between the superior and the lower bronchus with maximum diameter of 10/8 cm (arrow); (B) close contact of the tumour (arrow) with the left pulmonary artery
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